diff -r 9401662c4e6c pyrepl/_minimal_curses.py
--- a/pyrepl/_minimal_curses.py Fri Dec 04 13:10:13 2015 +0000
+++ b/pyrepl/_minimal_curses.py Wed Aug 31 17:10:45 2016 +0200
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@


 def _find_clib():
-    trylibs = ['ncurses', 'curses']
+    trylibs = ['ncursesw', 'ncurses', 'curses']

     for lib in trylibs:
         path = ctypes.util.find_library(lib)