ncurses programs look messaed up

[robin at mordasiewicz.com (Robin Mordasiewicz)]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Matt Hyclak wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:27:37PM -0500, Robin Mordasiewicz enlightened us:
>> When using things like links, centericq, or ntsysv on my fedora core 2 box
>> the fonts in ncurses based programs look fine, but on my centos4.2 box all
>> the pipes and dashes end up looking like
>>
>>  ??????????????????
>>
>> Does anyone know how to fix this problem ?
>
> Yes, change your LANG from en_US.UTF-8 to en_US. This can be done
> permanently in /etc/sysconfig/i18n.
>

I already have that setting. I tried running a console based ncurses 
program from my fedora core 4 box and got the same results as with 
centos-4.2