Oops. I found out that UTF-8 support actually _is_ compiled into recent xterms. You just have to enable it with command line options / X resources, and to use am ISO-10646 font. "Unifont" from the Debian distribution for some reason does not really work, but I got myself Markus Kuhn's ISO-10646 replacements for some standard X fonts, and even though do not yet contain glyphs for the whole range of their encoding, I can now do nifty things like viewing Russian or Greek or Lithuanian script webpages in Lynx!
Stefan
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