Annoying dot characters on virt cons when pressing backspace

[widremann]

and arrow keys. See picture below:

http://www.unc.edu/~feiner/dots.png

I don't have this problem on normal terminals from within X. The problem affects root and normal user alike. It occurs inside and outside of TWin and it always occurs without fail. So there must be some setting somewhere that will fix this, no?

[widremann]

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