[ale] How do I get rid of these strange characters?

[ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com (Jim Lynch)]

On the original machine, they look more like dominos, however.

Jim.
Jim Lynch wrote:

>Recently I've been getting a lot of unusual characters instead of what I think should be displayed.
>THis came from a FC4 system, but I've also noticed it on SuSE 9.3.  Sometimes the output 
>of C++ error messages is almost unreadable due to the wierd characters.  Is there
>a locale or something I need to set?
>
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>vaprobe.cpp:55: error: ???deviceCount??? was not declared in this scope
>vaprobe.cpp:66: error: ???deviceCount??? was not declared in this scope
>
>Thanks,
>Jim.
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