Despite the files (server.properties, for instance) being saved as UTF-8 files, and the JVM automatically picking up that FreeBSD's file encoding is UTF-8, when a minecraft server starts up and reads the UTF-8 config file, it saves it back to disk as plain ASCII, with the unicode character mangled.
For example:motd=♥ A Minecraft Server
Turns into:motd=\u00E2\u0099\u00A5 A Minecraft Server
This also leads to problems with modded minecraft's config files, but I believe fixing this underlying issue will also solve that.
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Duplicate of MC-2215