Midnight Commander Looks Strange

[Redrock]

The lines on the sides and middle are missing, and have been replaced with strange letter a. It looks normal when I use it at the local terminal but when I use it with putty on a windows machine it looks like the included images. I have had it working in the past on sarge, but I setup a new box with etch and loaded MC and this is what I got. Is it just a configuration issue? Has anyone ever seen this before?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

mc1.jpg

mc2.jpg

[dr_te_z]

try this:
in you putty configuration screen,
connection,
terminal-type string

does it say xterm?

If so: sorry, cannot help you
If not: change it to "xterm" and try again

[rcgreen]

It is a font issue. Look into PuTTy's menus and see if
there is a way to choose different fonts. Some fonts do not
have the "line drawing" characters that are used to make
MC look pretty.

[bumba]

This is not a fon issue. Please check your locale (lc_) and change it in putty options (Window->Translation->Character set on received data) to proper value. I suppose that you shuold use UTF8.