Set/Get current language (original) (raw)

mb_language

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7)

mb_language — Set/Get current language

Description

mb_language ( string $language ) : bool

mb_language ( void ) : string

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 Notes
German/de ISO-8859-15 Quoted-Printable
English/en ISO-8859-1 Quoted-Printable
Armenian/hy ArmSCII-8 Quoted-Printable
Japanese/ja ISO-2022-JP BASE64
Korean/ko ISO-2022-KR BASE64
neutral UTF-8 BASE64
Russian/ru KOI8-R Quoted-Printable
Turkish/tr ISO-8859-9 Quoted-Printable Available as of PHP 5.2.0
Ukrainian/ua KOI8-U Quoted-Printable Available as of PHP 5.3.0
uni UTF-8 BASE64
Simplified Chinese/zh-cn HZ BASE64
Traditional Chinese/zh-tw BIG-5 BASE64

Return Values

If language is set andlanguage is valid, it returns**TRUE**. Otherwise, it returns FALSE. When language is omitted, it returns the language name as a string.