Issue about clipboard, multi-byte character, and external shell cmd

Hi list,

I find that when I execute a shell command in vim via :call system()
or :!command after I copy something to "+(Linux clipboard),
1. the content of the clipboard is wiped, and
2. vim's "+ will be of junk characters if the copyed content has
multi-byte characters. But if there is just ASCII characters, "+ doesn't
change.

I tested on two Fedora 16 machines and one Ubuntu 12.04. They all show
the same behavior. It is the same with my own built vim(7.3.761) too.
I normally open a terminal, use 'watch -n 1 xsel -b' to monitor the
system clipboard, and use vim to edit some file in another terminal
(Use "+yy, !ls, :reg to identify the issue).

I hope someone else can reproduce and identify the issue. I leave some
Chinese characters here for your tests: 中文测试.

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alick
Fedora 16 (Verne) user
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Alick

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