setting up linux server, advice?

I'm setting up a fresh, no restrictions red hat fedora box for an upcoming project. We will need to import data that is currently stored in mysql via Latin1, and the html in templates and all is iso-whatever the standard is. The new server has to 100% I18N complaint for any latin or extended latin charset, and in 6mo to a year, utf8 for Japanese, Korean, etc... Please if any can tell me, quick run down, what do I need to know for setting up the shell, mail programs, setting up mySQL (4.1), PHP (5.0, but maybe 4.38), Apache 2.x. I'd like my current PHP code and queries to work with no issues, but I realize this may be wishful thinking. Thanks, Jacob