andyj, I set the terminal font with this in my ~/.Xdefaults:
URxvt*font: xft:Luxi Mono:pixelsize=14
This font was working fine with rxvt in Pure64 10.1
I set the lang with this boot code: lang=en_US.UTF-8 (the locale in mylocale.tcz).
Is this worrisome:
$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
?
Maybe rxvt.tcz is innocent and the problem is that getlocale.tcz is not generating the locale files properly?