In article <a5d587fb0712281659v4fc834dbscf0a474075aa18de / mail.gmail.com>,
  "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach / centrum.cz> writes:

> I tried to make the curses extension work with utf-8. It is possible
> but it requires setting locale properly which Ruby currently does not
> do. It also requires ncursesw but these are typically available on
> systems that do multibyte terminal IO.

Ruby 1.9 invokes setlocale at beginning of main.
-- 
Tanaka Akira