Gnome terminal: strange keyboard characters

[Sebastian Canagaratna <s-canagaratna@onu.edu>]

Hi: I am using unstable, with gdm as the display manager. After
upgrading yesterday, I find that in the gnome terminal, typing does not
produce any english characters, but arrows and other characters. I
thought that under terminal --> encoding I could change this, but I
tried Unicode as well as Western(iso-8859-1) but nothing works. Emacs,
Open Office, etc are OK. What is the problem here, and how do I change
it?

Thanks.

Sebastian Canagaratna
Department of Chemistry
Ohio Northern University
Ada, OH 45810.