I have a hard time believing that after this much effort benchmarking terminals and eventually having to switch to a different one that it wouldn't have been ea

I have a hard time believing that after this much effort benchmarking terminals and eventually having to switch to a different one that it wouldn't have been easier--and a lot more constructive, not only for this one user but for society in general--just to contribute a fix to Xterm for whatever issue it is having with Unicode (which fwiw I guess hasn't affected me yet, but if it ever does I'll just fix it).