How can I copy from the browser and paste to vim without unicode problems

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Published on 2012-08-27T21:09:42Z Indexed on 2012/08/27 21:38 UTC
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This happens to me all the time: I copy something from a rich text screen (usually a browser) and then paste it into vim. Usually its a code block and then when I go to compile or run or what have you I get all kind of bazaar errors.

I scratch my head, and then spend half an hour trying to figure out what is wrong before I realize I've copied some non ASCII characters: dashes, left and right quotes, long underscores, multiplication signs in place of x's, etc.

So I ask you: how can I copy non-ASCII into my VIM session without error?

Is there a paste mode that automatically 'down samples' unicode to ASCII? Is there a quick/dirty search for non ASCII characters in a file?

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