Problem with ncurses apps

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:13:58AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> When I try to run an application which uses ncurses, such as 
> dpkg-reconfigure, a lot of the special characters, such as the borders, 
> > and ] get mis-represented and it is difficult to read.  I thought it 
> might be a problem with locales, but that is set to UTF-8.  Is there
> something else I should check?  I am running hoary.

Since I didn't have the problem originally, I suspected that UTF-8 might
have caused this, so tried it on a Libranet install.  With UTF-8, I have
the problem; everything looks fine with ISO-8859-1.  Is this a bug with
UTF-8 or is there something else I need to do besides run
'dpkg-reconfigure locales' in order to use the UTF-8 locale?

Bob