Charactersets and encoding: switching from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8

[Erik Norgaard]

Hi:

I have just installed a virgin system, FBSD 6.1-BETA3 and upgraded to 
the head of RELENG_6. Since it is virgin, I thought this may be the time 
to make the switch to UTF-8.

Googling, it appears that UTF-8 was introduced in the base in 2004, but 
   I find no keymaps for UTF-8 console, no fonts, no console definition 
in /etc/termcap.

Is FreeBSD ready for UTF-8?

Secondly, if I successfully switch, how do I best convert files to 
UTF-8? One think is text files, I assume this should be simple, but then 
there are all the other files such as music and images with text embedded.

I have understood that UTF-8 is compatible with ASCII but not with the 
ISO character sets used in Europe.

Thanks, Erik

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