@c -*-texinfo-*-
@c This is part of the GNU Guile Reference Manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011
+@c Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2013
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See the file guile.texi for copying conditions.
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+@item GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE
+@vindex GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE
+This is a flag that can be used to tell Guile whether or not to install
+the current locale at startup, via a call to @code{(setlocale LC_ALL
+"")}. @xref{Locales}, for more information on locales.
+
+You may explicitly indicate that you do not want to install
+the locale by setting @env{GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE} to @code{0}, or
+explicitly enable it by setting the variable to @code{1}.
+
+Usually, installing the current locale is the right thing to do. It
+allows Guile to correctly parse and print strings with non-ASCII
+characters. Therefore, this option is on by default.
+
+@item GUILE_STACK_SIZE
+@vindex GUILE_STACK_SIZE
+Guile currently has a limited stack size for Scheme computations.
+Attempting to call too many nested functions will signal an error. This
+is good to detect infinite recursion, but sometimes the limit is reached
+for normal computations. This environment variable, if set to a
+positive integer, specifies the number of Scheme value slots to allocate
+for the stack.
+
+In the future we will implement stacks that can grow and shrink, but for
+now this hack will have to do.
+
@item GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH
@vindex GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH
This variable may be used to augment the path that is searched for
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