Encoding problem

[David Woodfall]

I have a bit of a problem with encoding. A particular file (made in windows
btw) shows characters wrong in vim, but ok in gvim. Example:

¹²³€

(made by holding alt-gr key and typing 1234).

Gvim shows encoding as utf-8 as does vim, so I thought maybe it was a
problem with my terminal (mrxvt) but in Irssi I have set char-set as cp1252
and these characters show correctly in my term. CP1252 doesn't appear to be
an option in vim though. Also the pound £  sign doesn't show correctly.

Any ideas how to get around this problem?

-- 
"A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff Besicovitch
dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension."
                -- Mandelbrot, "The Fractal Geometry of Nature"