diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 19f0ebce..b3c2eafe 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2013-01-02 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+        * configure.ac: Check for ncursesw5-config and base $CPPFLAGS based on it.
+
 2013-01-09 Fabian Groffen <grobian@Savannah>
         * configure.ac, src/nano.h: Make search for ncursesw more generalized.
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e999e415..c6c5e523 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -442,7 +442,15 @@ if eval "test x$CURSES_LIB_NAME = x"; then
 
     if test x$enable_utf8 != xno; then
 	AC_CHECK_HEADERS(ncursesw/ncurses.h)
-	AC_CHECK_LIB(ncursesw, get_wch, [CURSES_LIB="-lncursesw" CURSES_LIB_NAME=ncursesw CURSES_LIB_WIDE=yes])
+        AC_CHECK_TOOL(NCURSESW_CONFIG, ncursesw5-config, no)
+        if test "x$NCURSESW_CONFIG" != xno; then
+            CURSES_LIB=`$NCURSESW_CONFIG --libs`
+            CPPFLAGS="`$NCURSESW_CONFIG --cflags` $CPPFLAGS"
+            CURSES_LIB_NAME=ncursesw
+            CURSES_LIB_WIDE=yes
+        else
+            AC_CHECK_LIB(ncursesw, get_wch, [CURSES_LIB="-lncursesw" CURSES_LIB_NAME=ncursesw CURSES_LIB_WIDE=yes])
+        fi
     fi
 
     if eval "test x$CURSES_LIB_NAME = x"; then