[ale] Gibberish on the terminal

[doorslam at mindspring.com (Blake Sorensen)]

Allright, I was running a command, and it returned a lot of info but it =
was all in gibberish - it looked like the wrong character set, but just =
lowercase letters were affected.  Capitals were clearly readable, but =
everything else was boxes and lines and symbols.  I know there's a way =
to get this back to normal, but what is it?  And what causes this?

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Blake Sorensen
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