I took it upon myself to fix the mess, and ended up falling down a rabbit hole of ncurses support, with cruft going back 25 years.
I've proposed a bunch of fixes, including merging the ncurses and ncursesw packages, as well as making the ncursesw API the default (similar to what FreeBSD and others have done).
Interested to hear of potential issues, especially with older software. Will be testing it thoroughly!
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