_configthreadlocale and localeconv

Question

As we all know, global data, like the locale settings affecting the numeric decimal point printf() and strtod() are using, is evil. Fortunately, MSVC++ 9 allows to use per-thread locales by a _configthreadlocale(_ENABLE_PER_THREAD_LOCALE) call. Unfortunately, it seems that the localeconv() function does not notice this and still returns the global locale settings, e.g. localeconv()->decimal_point seems to always return the global locale setting before the _configthreadlocale() call. Is this a bug in the MSVC library or is this expected?

TIA Paavo