cursesw+setlocale fixes it!

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Ian Ward wrote:
> Hey, that works for me.  Combined characters and wide characters are
> working too.
> 
> Now the real problem.. how do I convince the python higher-ups to link
> against cursesw by default?

That's very easy. Contribute a working patch. That patch should support
all possible situations (e.g. curses is ncurses, and ncursesw is
available, curses is ncurses, and ncursesw is not available, curses
is not ncurses), and submit that patch to sf.net/projects/python.

Regards,
Martin