diff --git a/src/winio.c b/src/winio.c
index b7f533ab..9871aa4d 100644
--- a/src/winio.c
+++ b/src/winio.c
@@ -2429,12 +2429,12 @@ void draw_row(int row, const char *converted, linestruct *line, size_t from_col)
 	if (is_shorter || ISSET(SOFTWRAP))
 		wclrtoeol(edit);
 
+	wredrawln(edit, row, 1);
+
 #ifdef USING_OLD_NCURSES
 	/* Tell ncurses to really redraw the line without trying to optimize
 	 * for what it thinks is already there, because it gets it wrong in
 	 * the case of a wide character in column zero.  See bug #31743. */
-	if (seen_wide)
-		wredrawln(edit, row, 1);
 #endif
 
 #ifdef ENABLE_COLOR