Weird characters in the linux consoles and lines not drawn correctly

[sktsee]

On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:18:36 -0700, Chris Lemire wrote:

> Hello. I need some help with a problem in Feisty. When I launch midnight
> commander from a linux console such as tty5, it displays strange
> characters that it should not be displaying and does not display the
> lines correctly. How can it be fixed? I have tried changing the locale
> from en_US.UTF-8 to en_US.ISO-8859-1, but that did not make a
> difference.
>  
> http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/9026/hpim1001bh8.jpg


Try "sudo /etc/init.d/console-setup reload" and see if that corrects the
problem.

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sktsee