The xterm-191 configuration in the ebuild, currently looks like this: econf \ `use_enable truetype freetype` \ `use_enable unicode luit` \ --libdir=/etc \ <snip> --enable-i18n \ --enable-luit \ --enable-wide-chars \ --enable-doublechars \ <snip> As you can see, the effect of the unicode option is overriden later on the configure line.
thanks for catching that. fixed in cvs, no revision bump.