Scandinavian characters in Leopard terminal

I have a problem with Leopard terminal. It seems that no matter what I do, the terminal is not able to show scandinavian characters. I have tried to change all the related setting in Terminal preferences. I can now write special chars like ä, ö, å but when I try to list files with ls command all these characters are escaped and coded. This really bothers me because I need terminal very often and I need to see file lists with clear filenames. How can I change this?
I'm using a Finnish keyboard and my OS X language is set to English. In terminal preferences I set the charset encoding to ISO Latin-1 to get the scandinavian characters working. For some strange reason they didn't work with UTF-8. I have also unselected the tab "Escape non-ASCII input". What else should I do to get everything working?

when I try to list files with ls command all these characters are escaped and coded.
Try ls -v

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