How do I paste non-ASCII characters into vim?

Question

My terminal emulator is configured for Unicode character encoding and my .vimrc contains the line

set encoding=utf-8

but when I try pasting

Answer 1

1. From where are you trying to paste it? If it is opera, then since opera-10.5* paste is broken in both directions. Before pasting anything you need to use xclip -o|xclip -i workaround (add -sel clip for clipboard).
2. What command do you use?