mb_language

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

mb_languageSet/Get current language

Description

mb_language ( string $language ) : bool
mb_language ( void ) : string

Set/Get the current language.

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 and language is valid, it returns TRUE. Otherwise, it returns FALSE. When language is omitted, it returns the language name as a string.

See Also