Problem with curses and UTF-8

[Damjan]

I just recompiled my python to link to ncursesw, and tried your example
with a little modification:

import curses, locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
s = curses.initscr()
s.addstr(u'\u00c5 U+00C5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING
ABOVE\n'.encode('utf-8') )
s.addstr(u'\u00f5 U+00F5 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH
TILDE\n'.encode('utf-8'))
s.refresh()
s.getstr()
curses.endwin()

And it works ok for me, Slackware-10.2, python-2.4.2, ncurses-5.4 all
in KDE's konsole.
My locale is mk_MK.UTF-8.

Now it would be great if python's curses module worked with unicode
strings directly.