How do I fix pasting unicode characters in vim from system clipboard on OSX?

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I'm having an issue where, when I copy from or paste into vim using the * register, unicode characters seem to be mangled in different ways depending on the source and target of the copy-paste. Pasting into the buffer using ⌘+V in INSERT mode pastes what I would expect.

For example copying from vim to TextEdit produces multiple characters for each source character…

in vim:
“I am copied from « vim » ⇒ TextEdit”

in TextEdit:
‚ÄúI am copied from ¬´ vim ¬ª ‚áí TextEdit‚Äù

…and copying from TextEdit to vim produces something else

in TextEdit:
“I am copied from TextEdit ⇒ « vim »”

in vim:
<d2>I am copied from TextEdit ? <c7> vim <c8><d3>

The same issue shows up for other applications as well, not just TextEdit.

A couple questions:

I'm assuming the characters that show up in TextEdit are a decomposition of the source unicode characters, but what are the <d2> characters that show up in vim?
Does anyone know the source of the issue and how to resolve it such that copy-pasting between vim and OSX apps works as expected?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4185707/how-do-i-paste-non-ascii-characters-into-vim maybe? — Jiří Pospíšil, Jul 06 '20 at 10:59
@JiříPospíšil thanks for the link! Unfortunately that's not quite it — the answer there makes it so that ⌘+V will paste into the terminal correctly, but this issue is specifically with using the `*` register. — spbots, Jul 06 '20 at 12:01

How do I fix pasting unicode characters in vim from system clipboard on OSX?

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