diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0c1ce36a..f35201f7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2017-02-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
+	* Uses termcap capability U8 to identify terminals that can't display 
+	  vt100 line-drawing in UTF-8 mode
+
 2017-01-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
 	* Allow to change the focus out from FScrollView to another widget
 
diff --git a/src/fterm.cpp b/src/fterm.cpp
index b2b3c4c2..13899f46 100644
--- a/src/fterm.cpp
+++ b/src/fterm.cpp
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ bool                   FTermcap::automatic_right_margin = false;
 bool                   FTermcap::eat_nl_glitch          = false;
 bool                   FTermcap::ansi_default_color     = false;
 bool                   FTermcap::osc_support            = false;
+bool                   FTermcap::no_utf8_acs_chars      = false;
 int                    FTermcap::max_color              = 1;
 uInt                   FTermcap::tabstop                = 8;
 uInt                   FTermcap::attr_without_color     = 0;
@@ -1298,6 +1299,9 @@ void FTerm::setEncoding (std::string enc)
 {
   std::map<std::string,fc::encoding>::const_iterator it;
 
+  if ( FTermcap::no_utf8_acs_chars && isUTF8() && enc == "VT100" )
+    enc = "UTF8";
+
   // available encodings: "UTF8", "VT100", "PC" and "ASCII"
   it = encoding_set->find(enc);
 
@@ -2619,6 +2623,9 @@ void FTerm::init_termcaps()
     // OSC = Esc + ']'
     FTermcap::osc_support = tgetflag(const_cast<char*>("XT"));
 
+    // U8 is nonzero for terminals with no VT100 line-drawing in UTF-8 mode
+    FTermcap::no_utf8_acs_chars = bool(tgetnum(const_cast<char*>("U8")) != 0);
+
     if ( isTeraTerm() )
       FTermcap::eat_nl_glitch = true;
 
diff --git a/src/ftermcap.h b/src/ftermcap.h
index 7aa0b562..02d9c919 100644
--- a/src/ftermcap.h
+++ b/src/ftermcap.h
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ class FTermcap
    static bool eat_nl_glitch;
    static bool ansi_default_color;
    static bool osc_support;
+   static bool no_utf8_acs_chars;
    static int  max_color;
    static uInt tabstop;
    static uInt attr_without_color;