Thanks everybody. I had "-unicode" in my USE flags all these years. "emerge --changed-use --deep --update @world" has 11 ebuilds scheduled. and is running OK. Again, I apologize for a possible duplicate post or bounces as the mail host I use was down yestersday.
A few minutes later... everything rebuilt with "+unicode" in make.conf I have 'unicode="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf. No improvements in my system. "xterm" still hows as "xem". How does "emerge -e @world" sound? That's 615 packages. -- I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.
