Line Drawing and Unicode

[Christ, Bryan]

I would like to do some line-drawing on the Linux console, but when in
unicode mode, the ACS_ characters don't show up (blank spaces and such
where the lines should be).  How can I do line drawing WITHOUT linking
against ncursesw and using the wide functions?  I noticed that Midnight
Command does line drawing without using ncursesw, but looking through
the source code with all the slang macros been very time consuming.  I
thought that simply exporting NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS would work, but it
does not.

Anyone?