Annoying issue with "special characters"

I need to produce these special characters:
¤
and
ø
Now ofcourse I can copy and paste to get them, but after writing them to a file, they don't produce the same character, if that doesn't make sense I'll try to clear it up. I run a windows game through wine, and in the configuration file I need to use special characters in my name, they look fine in the editor, after I write the file, then go in game, the characters are completely different. Which is quite annoying. Is there anyway I can get these to truely be the character I want on linux?
edit:
more info, I wrote the file with vim, I then opened it with nano to see exactly what I saw in game. Is this an output problem of vim?

user wrote:
http://www.vim.org/search.php
I guess there is the right place to ask about "encoding".
PS: http://www.vim.org/community.php
Thanks for the links

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