@@ -, +, @@ 
 USE=unicode
---
 sys-libs/readline/readline-8.0_p1.ebuild | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/sys-libs/readline/readline-8.0_p1.ebuild	
+++ a/sys-libs/readline/readline-8.0_p1.ebuild	
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ esac
 LICENSE="GPL-3"
 SLOT="0/8"  # subslot matches SONAME major
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
-IUSE="static-libs utils"
+IUSE="static-libs +unicode utils"
 
 RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r3:0=[static-libs?,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 
 	# Force ncurses linking. #71420
 	# Use pkg-config to get the right values. #457558
-	local ncurses_libs=$($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) ncurses --libs)
+	local ncurses_libs=$($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) $(usex unicode ncursesw ncurses) --libs)
 	sed -i \
 		-e "/^SHLIB_LIBS=/s:=.*:='${ncurses_libs}':" \
 		support/shobj-conf || die
--