Weird terminal font issue
 

I'm having a strange problem with fonts in certain terminal emulators and the non-Xwindows CLI.
If I run mc or another program that has simple, non-Xwindows graphics like pkgtool in Slackware, I get extra characters thrown in instead of things like dashes. So in mc the line up top that should look like this:

<-/home------------------------------->

looks like this:

<Ä/homeÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>

Kinda hard to read....

This happens in the CLI as well as aterm, but not in xterm, Eterm or konsole.

Any suggestions?

-geomatt

Fixed it.
It was an environment variable. In order to get aterm working properly with vi I was running aterm with the option -tn linux. That set the TERM variable to linux and caused all of the problems. Both vi and mc work with -tn xterm.

Now my terminal really looks slick in fluxbox, and works too!

-geomatt