From Dr Francis J. Wright <F.J.Wright@qmw.ac.uk>.
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If non-ASCII text or internationalization is relevant, the locale that
-was current when you started Emacs. You can use this shell command to
-view the relevant values:
+was current when you started Emacs. On GNU/Linux and Unix systems, or
+if you use a Unix-style shell such as Bash, you can use this shell
+command to view the relevant values:
@example
echo LC_ALL=$LC_ALL LC_CTYPE=$LC_CTYPE LANG=$LANG