Adding Unicode/UTF8 chars to a ncurses display in C

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The wide character support is handled by ncursesw. Depending on your distro, ncurses may or may not point there (seemingly not in yours).

Try using -lncursesw instead of -lncurses.

Also, for the locale, try calling setlocale(LC_ALL, "")

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