Disappearing status bar?!

Hi,

I changed my system (a recent Gentoo Linux) to use utf-8 system wide.

After that (as before) using mrxvt (which does not really supports
utf-8/multibyte/unicode encodings) and starting vim gives me a nice
status bar.
When using urxvt (rxvt-unicode), which fully supports unicode, and
starting vim there, there is no status bar in the sense of its color
represenation (the characters are still there). Both terminals have
$TERM=xterm-256color set.

At this point I scratch my head a little bit confused.

Why does unicode removes the color from my status bar?
Or in other words: I want my zenburn back!

What went wrong here ?

Best regards and thank you very much in advance for any help!
mcc

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