From 52a44facfd10d079bf403ca75ab2d8a04bece78e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "trop[bot]" <trop[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 15:07:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] update locale documentation (#13027)

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 docs/api/app.md | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/api/app.md b/docs/api/app.md
index b668daef3f0ed..40fdf2669442c 100644
--- a/docs/api/app.md
+++ b/docs/api/app.md
@@ -531,8 +531,9 @@ Overrides the current application's name.
 
 ### `app.getLocale()`
 
-Returns `String` - The current application locale. Possible return values are documented
-[here](locales.md).
+Returns `String` - The current application locale. Possible return values are documented [here](locales.md).
+
+To set the locale, you'll want to use a command line switch at app startup, which may be found [here](https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/api/chrome-command-line-switches.md).
 
 **Note:** When distributing your packaged app, you have to also ship the
 `locales` folder.