Is there any particular reason that httpd never does the 'setlocale(LC_ALL, "");' magic necessary to get libc to respect the various locale related environment variables? As far as I can tell, despite system settings for locale (i.e. /etc/sysconfig/i18n on RHEL) httpd always runs with a locale of C, which is fine for most things, but pretty irritating if you have a need to do stuff with multibyte strings in a module.
Just adding a call to setlocale with a "" locale in httpd's main makes my particular problem go away, but I'm kind of hesitant to propose actually doing so since I don't know what kind of fallout there would be from having httpd all of a sudden start respecting the environment variables... -garrett