-Language settings are normally read from your Linux O/S language settings. To run on a language different
-than the one selected on your system just change the \texttt{LANG} environment variable before starting
-up Cinelerra like this:
+Language settings are normally read from your Linux O/S \textit{locale} settings.
+The Cinelerra program checks environment variables to determine your settings to use as the language.
+First it checks the value of LANGUAGE and will use that if set.
+If that is not set, then it checks
+LC\_ALL and finally if that is not set either, it will use the value of LANG. You can check the current
+settings from a window by looking at the output of the \textit{printenv} command.