[vile] Accented (and other extended) characters lost when pasting into vile, OK otherwise.

[Chris G]

I'm copying text from an ssh session on a remote machine into local
files I'm editing with vile.

If I put vile into insert mode and past the text into vile itself then
all extended (i.e. >127) characters are lost.  They disappear
completely, they don't appear as backslash sequences or anything like
that. 

However if I paste onto the end of the file I'm editing or into a
temporary file and read that into vile all the accented characters are
there.  E.g. if I'm editing a file 'thisFile' and I do:-

    cat >>thisFile
    <do the paste in this window>
    CTRL/D

Then the accented characters appear correctly in vile while editing
'thisFile' (need to do :e! of course).

Why doesn't the paste direct into vile work?

I'm all UTF as far as I know.  'locale' on the machine where vile is
running shows everything as "en_GB.UTF-8".  On the remote machine
where the text is coming from  everything is also "en_GB.UTF-8".


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Chris Green