Weird characters in the linux consoles and lines not drawn correctly
 

Hello. I need some help. When I launch midnight commander or finch from a linux console such as tty5, it displays strange characters, happy faces, etc. and does not display the lines correctly. How can it be fixed?

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/9026/hpim1001bh8.jpg

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/9010/hpim1007zv2.jpg

try
export LC_ALL=C;mc

mc often doesn't handle UTF locales very gracefully.

Cheers,
Tink

Building MC with slang instead of ncurses is known to fix the problem.