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Old 19th April 2009
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FreeBSDs file system has no concept of UTF-8 or any other encoding, it's just 8-bits of data as far as it is concerned.

Now other programs such as vi and xterm might not be ready to deal with it in the way you expect. What is your systems locale settings, and how are you checking these things?
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