Just a suggestion, I use terminus and instead of xterm I use rxvt-unicode
which can use several fonts for glyphs. While not perfect, Japanese and
Chinese look pretty good with this. This is the font configuration I use:
URxvt.font: xft:Terminus:pixelsize=20:antialias=false,\
xft:AR PL SungtiL GB:pixelsize=20:antialias=true,\
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1,\
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1
! xft:AR PL Mingti2L Big5:pixelsize ! not so good
! xft:AR PL KaitiM Big5:pixelsize=20:antialias=true,\ ! not
so good
!URxvt.boldFont: xft:Terminus:bold:pixelsize=18:antialias=true
URxvt.italicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true
URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans
Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true
