+ * if "configure --enable-widec" is not specified. Originally (in
+ * 1999-2000), the ifdef's also were needed since the proposed bit-layout
+ * for wide characters allocated 16-bits for A_CHARTEXT, leaving too few
+ * bits for a few of the A_xxx symbols.
+ * Some preprocessors are not able to test the values because they
+ * now (2014) contain an explicit cast to chtype, so we avoid ifdef.