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

How to type a non ASCII code into vi

You'll have to know what your encoding is to enter the proper codes, I assume you left VI at the default.

In VI, go into insert mode, while in insert mode, press

Ctrl-v 172

That should insert the Logical Not (sideways and inverted L) character defined here:

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/charset/iso160-191.html