To support more than ASCII, please set in your enviroment:
SPUNK_CTYPE=iso_8859_1

If you want to try this under X-Windows, do this:
env SPUNK_LANGUAGE=001 SPUNK_XFONT=8x13 xestic
If you have no Istec 100[38] connected, append "-n"
A BUGS & PROBLEMS section exists, see README.