title: NCurses extra spacing between characters on Windows command prompt
body: <p>I just started using the <code>ncurses</code> library that came with my MinGW64, <code>gcc</code> 5.3.0 on a Windows 7 machine.  With the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>initscr();
  noecho();
  raw();
  keypad(stdscr, TRUE);
  printw("Hello there.");
  getmaxyx(stdscr, row, col);
  printw("\nRow: %3d", row);
  printw("\nCol: %3d", col);
  printw("\nSomething %c", 0x2605);
  refresh();
  endwin();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get this as output:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TjNKR.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TjNKR.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>I've tried changing the font in the command line, which didn't help.  And I can't find anything on Google for why it's doing that.  Changing my linking from <code>ncursesw</code> to <code>ncurses</code> doesn't help.</p>
  
  <p>What can I do to fix this so that it prints out normally without all of the extra spacing?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>