helptags_one extract help tag like '*foo*'. it's used vim_strchr() to find second '*'. But vim_strchr() depend on current &encoding. Help file should be latin-1 or utf-8 encoding. So if DBCS is used for &encoding, it may not extract second '*'.
Below is a patch. Please check and include.
https://gist.github.com/2656714
- Yasuhiro Matsumoto