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I don't know of anyone working on this; feel free to try
yourself.

I'll continue to maintain the curses module, but don't plan
to embark on any significant new work (adding Unicode
support, adding wide-character features).  If I have an hour
of Python hacking time, I'll spend that time on processing
bugs or patches, not on enhancing a module that few people use.

So, if you'd like to see wide-character support

Note that in Python 2.5 the curses module links against
ncursesw.  It may be possible to display Unicode characters
by setting the locale to something that supports UTF-8 and
then sending UTF-8 strings to methods such as addstr().