>We could add an option to finger to have it force LC_CTYPE to "C".  This
>would effectively revert to the original behaviour.
>
>I'm planning to add an option to fingerd to have it force LC_CTYPE to
>en_US.ISO8859-1 or any user supplied value (on its command line), so
>that remote finger will work.  Currently inetd (and fingerd) runs with
>LC_CTYPE set to "C" (or rather "nothing"), so finger kim@localhost still
>is returning only 7bit characters.

	the above does not seem to be considering nothing about multibyte case.
	you really need to do full wchar_t dance.

itojun