Vim doesn't support unicode?

Question

I\'m trying to get the following into my .vimrc

\" Use the same symbols as TextMate for tabstops and EOLs
set listchars=tab:▸\\ ,eol:¬

Thos

Answer 1

When all else failed, telling vim to save with UTF-8 encoding seemed to work (for now at least):

:write ++enc=utf-8