UTF-8 on Debian Etch

[David Brodbeck]

Trying to figure out how to view/edit UTF-8 files properly in Emacs  
on Debian Etch.  I've installed emacs-mule and a whole bundle of  
fonts, but I still get backslash-escaped characters in Emacs instead  
of UTF-8.  My locale is set to "en_US.UTF-8".  Clicking Options/MULE/ 
Set language environment/UTF-8 doesn't seem to change anything.  I'm  
obviously missing some step here, but what?

David Brodbeck
Information Technology Specialist 3
Computational Linguistics
University of Washington