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I think that I catched the problem:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379447
_curses.so should be linked to libncursesw.so.5 and not 
libncurses.so.5. I tested on Hardy and I doesn't work because 
_curses.so was linked to libncurses.so.5.
Few commands...
 sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev
 make clean
 make
and it works ;-) Possible workaround: reject non-unicode ncurses 
library in setup.py. The ugly patch:
Index: setup.py
===================================================================
--- setup.py (révision 67973)
+++ setup.py (copie de travail)
@@ -848,23 +848,6 @@
 panel_library = 'panelw'
 exts.append( Extension('_curses', ['_cursesmodule.c'],
 libraries = curses_libs) )
- elif (self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'ncurses')):
- curses_libs = ['ncurses']
- exts.append( Extension('_curses', ['_cursesmodule.c'],
- libraries = curses_libs) )
- elif (self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'curses')
- and platform != 'darwin'):
- # OSX has an old Berkeley curses, not good enough for
- # the _curses module.
- if 
(self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'terminfo')):
- curses_libs = ['curses', 'terminfo']
- elif 
(self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'termcap')):
- curses_libs = ['curses', 'termcap']
- else:
- curses_libs = ['curses']
-
- exts.append( Extension('_curses', ['_cursesmodule.c'],
- libraries = curses_libs) )
 else:
 missing.append('_curses')
Ugly because it may break the curses module compilation on many OS 
(BSD and Solaris?).