Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:
mrxvt (my previous favourite terminal) is also much faster than any libvte-based terminal, about as fast as plain old xterm. unfortunately, it doesn't support unicode so i finally gave up using it a couple of years ago (i switched to roxterm which is, IMO, the least crappy of the libvte-based terminals - i tried them all when i reluctantly accepted that i'd have to give up mrxvt)
Obligatory mention of urxvt (rxvt-unicode) if you just need CJKV, and (IIRC) mlterm if you need bidi. I can heartily recommend urxvt. I've never tried mlterm seriously. I don't know how they compare to libvte for m18n support, because libvte didn't exist last time I cared about such things. Also nitpick: xterm *does* support unicode, it just doesn't support non-latin/cyrillic/greek orthographies very well. Obs. xterm -u8 / uxterm.