On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:50:51AM +0200, Jürgen Krämer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> with 'encoding' set to "utf-8" there is a quite confusing (to me)
> difference between the column number and my expectations (supported by
> the virtual column number) if there are non-ASCII characters on the
> line.

Column number n is really the nth byte on that line.  This is described
at ":help /\%c".  This description should explain all the behavior
you're seeing.  This is the intended behavior and I'm not sure of a way
off-hand to get the visual character count like you want.

James
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