ANSI art with X terminal emulator

["Jeremy Cyrus" <jeremy.cyrus@gmail.com>]

i am trying to run scrollz irc client in an xterm, with a colorful ansi
art script loading that produces very eye catching graphics. (the
reason i have always used scrollz for irc client). 

this is something that has always worked before, all i ever
had to do was install the xfonts-dosemu package, and use one of the
fonts that draws those characters correctly. 
there are a few of them.

anyways,
upon a recent reinstall of etch with upgrade to sid, i am running into
this stupid problem of UTF8 and whatever it is that breaks my program
from displaying correctly in an xterm environment. i tried changing my
locales to ISO-8859-1, but that doesn't fix it.

can someone please tell me what to do to make this work again?

i had posted to this list previously, but received no information on this problem, can someone advise me as to what i should do?
 im beginning to wonder if my fonts are broken or something, as im getting oddities about fonts not being loaded from my X session logs.


(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(**) FontPath set to:
        unix/:7100,
        /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
        /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
        /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
        /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
        /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType

why is the config looking for fonts there in the first place?
i also installed and am using xfs and added the line manually to the config file.

any info would be appreciated.

thanx