mb_language

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

mb_language — Set/Get current language

Description

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

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	Alias
German/de	ISO-8859-15	Quoted-Printable	Deutsch
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
Ukrainian/ua	KOI8-U	Quoted-Printable
uni	UTF-8	BASE64	universal
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 or null, it returns the language name as a string.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.0.0	`language` is nullable now.

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