evil-forward-char

Hello, In evil-mode, the evil-forward-char command restricts movement to the current line and does not allow highlighting the newline, in parallel with the behavior of vim. However, I have observed that even if I bind a key directly to forward-char in evil-mode, I still can not move to the next line or select the newline, though forward-char does work as expected if I leave evil-mode. Is there some way I re-enable the default behavior of forward-char in evil-mode? Thanks.