commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/ac360bf2ca293735fc7c6654dc2b3066f4c62488 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Tue Sep 1 20:31:20 2015 +0200 patch 7.4.852 Problem: On MS-Windows console Vim uses ANSI APIs for keyboard input and console output, it cannot input/output Unicode characters. Solution: Use Unicode APIs for console I/O. (Ken Takata, Yasuhiro Matsumoto)

README_src.txt for version 7.4 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-7.4-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!