Is the Python binding for ncurses unicode capable?

[bmcnally at gmail.com]

Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong? The following code snipet
produces an error about addch() expecting an int:

        u = u'\u2591'
        s = u.encode("UTF-8")
        stdscr.addch((y+1), (x+1), s, curses.color_pair(1))

If I try this instead:

        u = u'\u2591'
        s = u.encode("UTF-8")
        stdscr.addstr((y+1), (x+1), s, curses.color_pair(1))

I don't get what I expect to print out on the screen.

I don't have any problems with simply printing the characters from
Python (outside of ncurses), but using the ncurses functions for
printing these characters is problematic.