mb_language

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Description

The mb_language of Multibyte String for PHP set/Get current language.

Syntax

mb_language(
    ?string $language = null
): string|bool

Parameters

language

Used for encoding e-mail messages. The valid languages are listed in the following table. mb_send_mail() uses this setting to encode e-mail.

Language	Charset	Encoding
de, Deutsch, German	ISO-8859-15	Quoted-Printable
en, English	ISO-8859-1	Quoted-Printable
hy, Armenian	ArmSCII-8	Quoted-Printable
ja, Japanese	ISO-2022-JP	BASE64
ko, Korean	ISO-2022-KR	BASE64
neutral, uni, universal	UTF-8	BASE64
ru, Russian	KOI8-R	Quoted-Printable
tr, Turkish	ISO-8859-9	Quoted-Printable
ua, Ukrainian	KOI8-U	Quoted-Printable
zh-cn, Simplified Chinese	HZ	BASE64
zh-tw, Traditional Chinese	BIG-5	BASE64

Return

If language is set and language is valid, it returns true. Otherwise, it returns false. When language is omitted or null, it returns the language name as a string.

Examples

1 · void

<?

$return = mb_language();

var_export($return);

?>

'neutral'

2 · language · de

<?

$language = 'de';

$return = mb_language($language);

var_export($return);

?>

true

3 · language · en

<?

$language = 'en';

$return = mb_language($language);

var_export($return);

?>

true

4 · language · hy

<?

$language = 'hy';

$return = mb_language($language);

var_export($return);

?>

true

5 · language · ja

<?

$language = 'ja';

$return = mb_language($language);

var_export($return);

?>

true

6 · language · ko

<?

$language = 'ko';

$return = mb_language($language);

var_export($return);

?>

true

7 · language · neutral

<?

$language = 'neutral';

$return = mb_language($language);

var_export($return);

?>

true

8 · language · ru

<?

$language = 'ru';

$return = mb_language($language);

var_export($return);

?>

true

9 · language · tr

<?

$language = 'tr';

$return = mb_language($language);

var_export($return);

?>

true

10 · language · ua

<?

$language = 'ua';

$return = mb_language($language);

var_export($return);

?>

true

11 · language · zh-cn

<?

$language = 'zh-cn';

$return = mb_language($language);

var_export($return);

?>

true

12 · language · zh-tw

<?

$language = 'zh-tw';

$return = mb_language($language);

var_export($return);

?>

true