Weird characters in the linux consoles and lines not drawn correctly

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On 6/6/07, sktsee <sktsee at tulsaconnect.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Gee, this has long bothered me, thanks for this solution!

However, how would a non-sudo user solve this? I just tested and this
fix appears to be necessary everytime I switch from X to console. This
happens to me, since Edgy, maybe even since Dapper. Is there a
permantent fix?

regards
FF