If you want rxvt-big5 to automatically detect multibyte characters when moving the cursor, put the following line into your .Xdefaults or .Xresources: rxvt.multibyte_cursor: yes If you do not wish to have this feature, reinstall the port with the following commands: cd /usr/ports/chinese/rxvt-big5 make NO_MULTIBYTE_CURSOR=yes deinstall clean install clean