Can I get an ISO-8859-1 system back

[Lars Eighner]

I upgraded from 9.? to 10.2. I used a custom kernel to avoid vt and raster 
fonts in sc. I updated as many ports as would build.

Now I cannot find an editor that will display my files with accent 
characters correctly. I know the files are still iso-8859-1 because they 
are the same size they were and when I cat them, they have the right 
characters in them. This also shows that my term (cons25l1) can display 
the characters correctly. But joe, joe2, ee, and pico-alpine seem to 
convert them to some kind of UTF mess, with two bytes which display as grey 
blocks.

I have tried using LC_ALL and LANG as en_US.iso-8859-1 in .login_conf, and 
unsetting them, I have tried several screen maps.


How far back do I have to downgrade to eliminate UTF from my system 
entirely? I don't care if I can't run a gui. I just want an editor that 
will open iso-8859-1 as iso-8859-1 and not any 2-byte whatever, and will 
display accented characters correctly, as cat does.

I will never want to use sanskrit or Chinese characters. I just want 
Western European characters and I do not want to waste two bytes on them.
I want to use the VGA characters, which the experiment with cat 
demonstrates are on my video card and do work. I do not want unreadable
raster fonts.