Re: utf8 vs string handling vs virtcol

[Thomas]

This is wrong. You need:
            let col  = col(".")
            let line = strpart(getline("."), col - 1)

Unfortunately, IIRC this doesn't work with wrapped lines which is why I 
chose virtcol() ... But, well can't reproduce what I did (or thought 
that I did) 10 minutes ago. Anyway, it doesn't work with enc=utf8 and 
when there are malformed characters (not valid utf8) that are displayed 
as <xx>. Interestingly, virtcol() doesn't work in this situation either.

But you're 99% right I guess. Thanks.

Regards,
Thomas.