diff --git a/lib/widget.js b/lib/widget.js
index d5b392f..1771383 100644
--- a/lib/widget.js
+++ b/lib/widget.js
@@ -1061,7 +1061,8 @@ Screen.prototype.draw = function(start, end) {
       // this seems to be the way ncurses does it.
       if (this.tput) {
         if (this.tput.strings.enter_alt_charset_mode) {
-          if (!this.tput.brokenACS || !this.tput.unicode) {
+          //if (!this.tput.brokenACS || !this.tput.unicode) {
+          if (!this.tput.brokenACS) {
             if (this.tput.acscr[ch]) {
               if (acs) {
                 ch = this.tput.acscr[ch];
@@ -1083,14 +1084,60 @@ Screen.prototype.draw = function(start, end) {
           // are it does not support UTF8. This is probably
           // the "safest" way to do this. Should fix things
           // like sun-color.
-          // if (this.program.term('sun') && ch > '~') {
           // if (this.tput.numbers.U8 !== 1 && ch > '~') {
+          // if ((!this.unicode || this.tput.numbers.U8 !== 1) && this.tput.utoa[ch]) {
           if (this.tput.numbers.U8 !== 1 && this.tput.utoa[ch]) {
             ch = this.tput.utoa[ch] || '?';
           }
         }
       }
 
+      // Attempt to use ACS for supported characters.
+      // This is not ideal, but it's how ncurses works.
+      // There are a lot of terminals that support ACS
+      // *and UTF8, but do not declare U8. So ACS ends
+      // up being used (slower than utf8). Terminals
+      // that do not support ACS and do not explicitly
+      // support UTF8 get their unicode characters
+      // replaced with really ugly ascii characters.
+      // It is possible there is a terminal out there
+      // somewhere that does not support ACS, but
+      // supports UTF8, but I imagine it's unlikely.
+      // Maybe remove !this.tput.unicode check, however,
+      // this seems to be the way ncurses does it.
+      if (0 && this.tput) {
+        if (this.tput.strings.enter_alt_charset_mode && !this.tput.brokenACS) {
+          if (this.tput.acscr[ch]) {
+            if (acs) {
+              ch = this.tput.acscr[ch];
+            } else {
+              ch = this.tput.smacs()
+                + this.tput.acscr[ch];
+              acs = true;
+            }
+          } else if (acs) {
+            ch = this.tput.rmacs() + ch;
+            acs = false;
+          }
+        } else {
+          // U8 is not consistently correct. Some terminfo's
+          // terminals that do not declare it may actually
+          // support utf8 (e.g. urxvt), but if the terminal
+          // does not declare support for ACS (and U8), chances
+          // are it does not support UTF8. This is probably
+          // the "safest" way to do this. Should fix things
+          // like sun-color.
+          if ((!this.unicode
+              || (!this.tput.strings.enter_alt_charset_mode
+              && this.tput.numbers.U8 !== 1))
+              && ch > '~') {
+            ch = this.tput.utoa[ch] || '?';
+          }
+        }
+      }
+
+      // if (wideChars.test(ch)) x++;
+
       out += ch;
       attr = data;
     }
@@ -1978,7 +2025,7 @@ Element.prototype.parseContent = function(noTags) {
       .replace(/\x1b(?!\[[\d;]*m)/g, '')
       .replace(/\r\n|\r/g, '\n')
       .replace(/\t/g, this.screen.tabc)
-      .replace(dwidthChars, '?');
+      .replace(wideChars, '?');
 
     if (!noTags) {
       content = this._parseTags(content);
@@ -3089,6 +3136,12 @@ Element.prototype.render = function() {
         lines[y][x][1] = ch;
         lines[y].dirty = true;
       }
+
+      // if (wideChars.test(ch)) {
+      //   x++;
+      //   lines[y][x][0] = attr;
+      //   lines[y][x][1] = ' ';
+      // }
     }
   }
 
@@ -5811,7 +5864,7 @@ function hsort(obj) {
   });
 }
 
-var dwidthChars = new RegExp('(['
+var wideChars = new RegExp('(['
   + '\\uff01-\\uffbe'
   + '\\uffc2-\\uffc7'
   + '\\uffca-\\uffcf'