OS X Terminal UTF-8 issues

Question

Okay, so I finally got myself a MacBook Air after 15 years of linux. And before I got it my big concern was UTF-8 support because no matter if I get files sent to me from wi

Answer 1

Check whether nano was actually built with UTF-8 support, using nano --version. Here it is on Cygwin:

nano --version
 GNU nano version 2.2.5 (compiled 21:04:20, Nov  3 2010)
 (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 Email: nano@nano-editor.org    Web: http://www.nano-editor.org/
 Compiled options: --enable-color --enable-extra --enable-multibuffer
 --enable-nanorc --enable-utf8

Note the last bit.