i have had problems with this, too
what I did was, I run liloconfig and select UTF-8 for the text consoles. Then edit /etc/profile.d/lang.sh to use export LANG=en_US.UTF-8, as mentioned above by SwiftTimber-Z80. However, some programs did not like to use UTF8. For example XMMS menus had huge fonts. In this case, I opened the /usr/share/applications/xmms.desktop file and made it start the program like this:
Exec=env LANG=en_US xmms %U
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