diff --git a/vhttpd/guile/wrap.c b/vhttpd/guile/wrap.c
index 0f5fef8..0ddd8d2 100644
--- a/vhttpd/guile/wrap.c
+++ b/vhttpd/guile/wrap.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 #include <libguile.h>
 #include <vhttpd.h>
+#include <locale.h>
 
 /*** main wrappers */
 static SCM
@@ -641,6 +642,8 @@ void scm_init_vhttpd (void);
 void
 scm_init_vhttpd (void)
 {
+  setlocale(LC_ALL, "ru_RU.UTF-8"); // FIXME
+
   /* vhttpd/socket.h */
   scm_c_define_gsubr ("make-unix-client-socket", 1, 0, 0, _make_unix_client_socket);
   scm_c_define_gsubr ("make-unix-server-socket", 3, 0, 0, _make_unix_server_socket);