[mew-int 01479] Mew/Xemacs from OS/X Terminal app

[Marty Cawthon]

Hello, 
                                                                          
My problem: 
  Xemacs with MEW running on a FreeBSD machine is invoked from
a remote "Terminal" app in Apple OS/X.  Japanese characters
display as tildes (~).  (Xemacs is 21.1.11 and Mew is 2.1.
Sorry, I will upgrade soon). 
                                                                          
What I have tried:                                                      
  In the OS/X "Terminal :: Window Settings :: Display" dialog box        
I have set "Character Set Encoding" to "Japanese (EUC)" but 
that failed to solve the problem.  Also I tried setting it 
to "Japanese (ISO-2022-JP) which also failed to display 
properly. 
 
  I have tried changing those settings whilst using Xemacs remotely.
Also I have made those changes prior to making my remote SSH connection 
(in case the Terminal app sends encoding information to the server, 
which is subsequently read by Xemacs). 

  Also I have changed the text font that the Terminal app uses to
be a Japanese character capable font. (but it seems that OS/X does
this itself even if I select a non-Japanese font -- at least in 
other applications).

What works: 
  When I use KTerm (EUC) under FreeBSD to do the same thing 
the Japanese characters display properly. 
 
Apology: 
  I am certain that this is not a problem within the MEW code, 
but I encounter the trouble when using MEW and so am sending 
to this Mailing List in the hopes that somebody else has 
encountered the same thing.  

  I am attending the Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC 2003)
and asked some of the Internationalization technical people here. 
One said "yes, very embarassing" and another said that the tildes 
in Xemacs were an indication that Xemacs could not render the font, 
and that if I selected the proper Character Set Encoding (which I 
have tried) then "it should work". 
 
  Yes!  "It should work" has replaced "the check is in the mail" 
as the phrase least likely to instill confidence! 
 
  Perhaps the OS/X Terminal app does not properly communicate it's 
Character Set to the remote process (Xemacs & Mew) properly? 
That is my best guess.  

  Anyway, any ideas?  

Marty Cawthon