diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ef2580cd..2c9c0a47 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2008-07-23 Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
+	* configure.ac: Add ncursesw dir to include path if lib detected
+
 2008-07-11 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
 	* doc/nanorc.sample.in: Include the updates files in the default sample nanorc.
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1e09e23b..0fc5c240 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ if eval "test x$CURSES_LIB_NAME = x"; then
     AC_CHECK_HEADERS(ncurses.h)
 
     if test x$enable_utf8 != xno; then
-	AC_CHECK_LIB(ncursesw, get_wch, [CURSES_LIB="-lncursesw" CURSES_LIB_NAME=ncursesw CURSES_LIB_WIDE=yes])
+	AC_CHECK_LIB(ncursesw, get_wch, [CURSES_LIB="-lncursesw" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/ncursesw $CPPFLAGS" CURSES_LIB_NAME=ncursesw CURSES_LIB_WIDE=yes])
     fi
 
     if eval "test x$CURSES_LIB_NAME = x"; then