mangled characters in Terminal

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

Hi there

I am using Debian stable 6.0. I installed a base system then installed 
the GNUstep environment using the apt package manager. The only minor 
issue i'm having is with text-based programs in the Terminal and with 
wterm which I installed as well.

Some of the punctuation characters in man pages, for example,  do not 
appear correctly and programs that use the full terminal screen, like 
mutt, also share this problem. Programs that use the curses library 
such as the text-based package managment tools do not display properly 
either.

I wonder if anyone can help me to fix this, perhaps there is another 
library I need to install? When I searched on the internet, I came 
across a post where someone using Ubuntu reported a similar issue and 
a reply he got suggested compiling GNUstep from source rather than 
using binary packges. Do you think that would be necessary for this 
problem?

Best wishes, Jamie.