How to make ncurses display UTF-8 chars correctly in C?

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You need to have called setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""); (with a UTF-8 based locale configured) before initializing ncurses. You also need to make sure your ncurses is actually built with wide char support (“ncursesw”) but on modern distros this is the default/only build.

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