ncurses programs look messaed up

[robin at mordasiewicz.com (Robin Mordasiewicz)]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
>
>> 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 ?
>
> Are you in an xterm (or other terminal emulator) or a regular console?

I use Putty.