# HG changeset patch
# User Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
# Date 943080519 0
# Node ID 949ca235ee9e41b34c52ea897222601f09e092fd
# Parent  a6cf126fdf9781f451a1982a8f93444f5eb36650
Describe the relationship between set-locale-environment and
set-language-environment, and why one might want to invoke
set-locale-environment.

diff -r a6cf126fdf97 -r 949ca235ee9e man/mule.texi
--- a/man/mule.texi	Sat Nov 20 00:17:14 1999 +0000
+++ b/man/mule.texi	Sat Nov 20 06:48:39 1999 +0000
@@ -181,6 +181,17 @@
 @code{locale-charset-language-names}; since these two language
 environments' character sets disagree, Emacs uses @code{"Latin-9"}.
 
+  If all goes well, the @code{set-locale-environment} function selects
+the language environment, since language is part of locale.  It also
+adjusts the display table and terminal coding system, the locale coding
+system, and the preferred coding system as needed for the locale.
+
+  Since the @code{set-locale-environment} function is automatically
+invoked during startup, you normally do not need to invoke it yourself.
+However, if you modify the @env{LC_ALL}, @env{LC_CTYPE}, or @env{LANG}
+environment variables, you may want to invoke the
+@code{set-locale-environment} function afterwards.
+
 @findex set-locale-environment
 @vindex locale-preferred-coding-systems
   The @code{set-locale-environment} function normally uses the preferred