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</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>set-locale LOCALE…</command></term>
+ <term><command>set-locale LOCALE</command></term>
+ <term><command>set-locale VARIABLE=LOCALE…</command></term>
- <listitem><para>Set the system locale. This takes one or more
- assignments such as "LANG=de_DE.utf8",
- "LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8", and so on. See
+ <listitem><para>Set the system locale. This takes one locale such as <literal>en_US.UTF-8</literal>, or takes one or more
+ locale assignments such as <literal>LANG=de_DE.utf8</literal>, <literal>LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8</literal>, and so on. If
+ one locale without variable name is provided, then <literal>LANG=</literal> locale variable will be set. See
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>locale</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details on the available settings and their meanings. Use
<command>list-locales</command> for a list of available