Comment 7 for bug 3498

i'm running feisty, and believe i have a simpler way of reproducing this problem. i have never, to my knowledge, changed my local/language/etc. (i'm in the US.)

boot the system. don't bother logging in to gdm.

switch directly to a console, with control-alt-F1.

log in, and run: "dialog --msgbox foo 0 0"

observe funky box-drawing characters: inverted L shapes, downarrows, etc.

run "sudo /etc/init.d/console_setup restart"

rerun the dialog command and observe that the dialog box output is now correct.

switch to the X11 vt, with alt-control-F7. don't log in.
switch back to the console screen with alt-control-F1.

observe that the dialog output (which should still be on the console) has now changed to "funky". re-run the dialog command. observe that fresh painting still produces "funky" output.