> > and they would be unusable on linux too when using xterm as terimal
> > "xterm" differs from "linux"
>
> Well, I may be wrong, and the problem is possibly inside termcap...
> Lets take a look to emacs21, irssi, vim... they do not show colors

emacs20.7 works fine. never tested 21...

> properly, and irssi behaves badly when printing some strings to
> screen (it does well in FreeBSD with cons25l1).