How to display my native language in fields and items

[zhou_jing]

Hi:
   I am a student in Beijing,china.Now i am doing a project these days.It is a 
program using ncurses library.But now i have a problem.
I want to display Chinese ,not English in my program.Though it can display 
Chinese when i write it directly like waddstr("Chinese word"),
it can not display correctly when i put chinese words in the items and fields. 
When i write chinese in the items and display the menu,it 
displays nothing.
   Can u do me a favor?i use ncurses 5.0 library.Can this ncurses library 
support display native language ?and how to do it ?
   Thank for your help very much!!.

              zhou_jing
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