diff --git a/pod/perllocale.pod b/pod/perllocale.pod
index e0ba47c092ee..68188a0947f2 100644
--- a/pod/perllocale.pod
+++ b/pod/perllocale.pod
@@ -1680,12 +1680,20 @@ control, but doesn't.  If two strings do collate identically, the one
 containing the C<NUL> will sort to earlier.  Prior to 5.26, there were
 more bugs.
 
+=head2 C<LANGUAGE>
+
+On some systems that use this environment variable, Perl ignores it XXX
+
 =head2 Multi-threaded
 
 XS code or C-language libraries called from it that use the system
 L<C<setlocale(3)>> function (except on Windows) likely will not work
 from a multi-threaded application without changes.  See
-L<perlxs/Locale-aware XS code>.
+L<perlxs/Locale-aware XS code>.  Some such have been so changed, but
+call C libraries that can't be changed.  This will work, but as long as
+only a single thread in your application uses such a library.  C<Tk> is
+XXX
+one such library.
 
 An XS module that is locale-dependent could have been written under the
 assumption that it will never be called in a multi-threaded environment,