I just stumbled across Terminator, a terminal emulator for all modern POSIX operating systems, including OS X, Linux, and Windows (with Cygwin). It uses Java 5 (standard part of OS X if you keep up to date with Software Update), does anti-aliasing, has great Unicode support (can see foreign alphabets, etc), as well as tabbing support. I've been having problems with iTerm lately, in that it won't let me change my font from Monaco to anything else for some reason, so figured Terminator might make a good replacement.

Yet, I'm not entirely convinced. Terminator is clearly well put together, but being based on Java just takes a couple of seconds too long to load IMHO. It also flickers a bit when resizing and, well, feels like a Java application. It does integrate with the OS X look quite well though, but I'm not yet sure if being able to change the font and have Unicode support is worth using it full time.

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