[dev] hell with the Terminus font?

I wonder why does dwm refuse to use terminus font? I get "dwm missing
fontset" for several locales (if it is somehow related?) and a message that
dwm failed to load terminus font. Whenever I rebuild dwm for terminus I get
a crappy default font. Who does use terminus, and whats your config? My
terminus installed to "/usr/share/fonts/local" and I add this path in
.xinitrc, so everything should work.
My default locale is set to utf-8 and I need it as I work with several
languages.

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Tian