Ever wonder why, when you SSH into your Unix/Linux workstation and view manpages, use curses applications, etc, the display seems to be garbled?

This is because of a font misunderstanding between your terminal program (mine is PuTTY) and the ncurses package. Ncurses now uses UTF-8, so make sure your terminal program is set to interpret the incoming character set as UTF-8 instead of the default ISO-8559-1. In Putty, this should come under Window->Translation in the settings dialog for a configured session.