I get the same behaviour when I start xterm with +u8. xterm -u8 behaves properly however, as does xterm without any command line options.
Maybe you can use -u8 as a workaround? -- UTF-8 display is broken https://launchpad.net/bugs/54842 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
