Dir listing with umlauts / special characters

I've got a directory tree, where several files have umlauts or french accented characters in their names.
When I do 'ls' in such a directory, I can see the umlauts fine in Terminal, e.g.:
Die rote Wüste - Michelangelo Antonioni.avi
Nazarin - Luis Buñuel (span, eng sub, 1959).avi
I've got the environment variable LC_CTYPE=UTF-8.
However, when I do this: 'ls > /tmp/f.txt'
and then open the text file in TextEditor, I get this:
Die rote WuÃàste - Michelangelo Antonioni.avi
Nazarin - Luis BunÃÉuel (span, eng sub, 1959).avi
Does anyone have an idea, how to fix this?
(BTW: I've got a similar problem when I rsync these files ...)
Thanks a lot in advance.
Best regards,
Gabriel.

Well, I've been using /Applications/TextEdit for these files, because I was assuming that it handles UTF-8 automatically.
I opened the files now with Vim (my favorite editor), and, lo and behold, all special characters are fine!
I think, that solves my problem, because I can even copy-and-paste the text from Vim into my notes.
Best regards,
Gabriel.

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