A look at terminal emulators, part 1

I used to use urxvt for many years, but the deal breaker for me was finding out it lacks the most basic support for Unicode. Not substantial things like writing system support, but simply drawing any codepoint above U+FFFF as a missing character box. IIRC it was also a deliberate decision to render true colour escapes as garbage to spite anyone using them, and there was a similar attitude toward simple background translucency for a long time; it was ‘permitted’ by 2013-4 but the ridiculous manually-multiplied alpha syntax that was first added is probably still in the code.

I'm using st now which is obstinate in its own way: several keys produce a control sequence that isn't used by the rest of the world just because it's technically, pedantically correct in a letter-of-the-law sense. This usually means the delete key doesn't work anywhere. It's a QoL improvement despite that, but I've never found a terminal I'm completely happy with.