UTF-8 mitiged support ??

[Olivier Cortes]

Hi,

[ENV: 
FreeBSD syrenna.deep-ocean.local 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #12:
Thu Jul 17 10:07:43 CEST 2003    
root at syrenna.deep-ocean.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SYRENNA  i386
last cvsup; portupgrade -a yesterday
gnome 2.3.x from MarcusCom CVS
other info, pkg_info, hardware, etc :
http://www.deep-ocean.net/~olive/freebsd/syrenna/]

I use UTF-8 in my files (edited with gedit and vim-gtk2). With nautilus
(and other) i can name my files with UTF-8 chars in them.
the problem is : gnome-terminal displays UTF-8 names as "Vidéos"
instead of "Vidéos" (nautilus & others see it correctly).
It seems that the UTF-8 support exists in Gnome2, but is not activated
everywhere.

Under Debian GNU/linux, i saw that with the word "UTF-8" embedded in the
locale name, gnome-terminal switches automagically to the utf-8
encoding. but under FreeBSD ? how can i acheive the same thing ?

what is the UTF-8 status of CURRENT ? i searched google, but found only
very old discussions about the subject, nothing recent or appropriate.

i searched various things around locale(1), but i felt lost trying to
create a fr_FR.UTF-8 locale. if you can point me to the right direction,
i'm willing to help.

feel free to also point me to freebsd-i18n. i didn't want to crosspost,
but i think that a part of this discussion goes there.

regards

olivier