Sqlplus shows unreadable characters !

Hi,
this is my first time running oracle 11g r2 on my laptop with windows 7-OS 32-bit . It means I am totally newbie with Oracle and sql. So I need your help with my problem.
when I start sqlplus.exe . It shows strange characters like this :
http://i52.tinypic.com/11rt0rk.jpg
thanks in advance.

BANNER
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
CORE 11.2.0.1.0 Production
TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.1.0
while installation wizard, I think there was an option for character set . I just let it as default without changing it to something else.

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