How to get ncurses to output astral plane unicode

问题:

I have the following piece of extremely simple code, which is supposed to output (amongst other things), three unicode characters:

/*
 * To build:
 *   gcc -o curses curses.c -lncursesw
 *
 * Expected result: display these chars:
 *   http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2603/index.htm  (snowman)
 *   http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/26c4/index.htm  (snowman without snow)
 *   http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f638/index.htm (grinning cat face with smiling eyes)
 *
 * Looks like ncurses is NOT able to display second and third char
 * (only the first one is OK...)
 */

#include <ncurses.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>

int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
    WINDOW *stdscr;
    char buffer[] = {
        '<',
        0xE2, 0x98, 0x83,       // U+2603 : snowman: OK
        0xE2, 0x9B, 0x84,       // U+26C4 : snowman without snow: ERROR (space displayed)
        0xF0, 0x9F, 0x98, 0xB8, // U+1F638: grinning cat face: ERROR (space displayed)
        '>',
        '\0' };

    setlocale (LC_ALL, "");

    stdscr = initscr ();
    mvwprintw (stdscr, 0, 0, buffer);
    getch ();
    endwin ();

    /* output the buffer outside of ncurses */
    printf("%s\n",buffer);
    return 0;
}

The final printf outputs all the characters as I'd expect "<☃⛄