With vim/gvim you can easily set your desired encoding.
$ gvim
:set encoding=utf-8
2010/6/15 PP<P8QQP8P9 P&P0QQ P:P>P2 <czark...@gmail.com>:
> Good [time of the day]!
>
> My X11 is set up to have "us" and "ru" XKB layouts. When using browser
> I get cyrillic chars as supposed to, but using gvim all non-ASCII
> chars (either typed in or read from utf-8 encoded file) are replaced
> with spanish (upside down) question marks.
>
> As I have all my text data in UTF-8 and some of it has UTF-only chars,
> I would like to understand, how can I get gvim to display them
> properly.
>
> --
> Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
