It is possible to have a single-threaded build use the thread-safe
locale setting operations. Add a word to indicate it's not 100% the
other way.
=for apidoc switch_to_global_locale
-On systems without locale support, or on single-threaded builds, or on
+On systems without locale support, or on typical single-threaded builds, or on
platforms that do not support per-thread locale operations, this function does
nothing. On such systems that do have locale support, only a locale global to
the whole program is available.