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<h1 class="refname">mb_language</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">mb_language</span> — <span class="dc-title">Set/Get current language</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type"><a href="language.pseudo-types.html#language.types.mixed" class="type mixed">mixed</a></span> <span class="methodname"><strong>mb_language</strong></span>
([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$language</code><span class="initializer"> = mb_language()</span></span>
] )</div>
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Set/Get the current language.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">language</code></em></span>
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Used for encoding
e-mail messages. Valid languages are "Japanese",
"ja","English","en" and "uni"
(UTF-8). <span class="function"><a href="function.mb-send-mail.html" class="function">mb_send_mail()</a></span> uses this setting to
encode e-mail.
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Language and its setting is ISO-2022-JP/Base64 for
Japanese, UTF-8/Base64 for uni, ISO-8859-1/quoted printable for
English.
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.mb-language-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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If <em><code class="parameter">language</code></em> is set and
<em><code class="parameter">language</code></em> is valid, it returns
<strong><code>TRUE</code></strong>. Otherwise, it returns <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>.
When <em><code class="parameter">language</code></em> is omitted, it returns the language
name as a <span class="type"><a href="language.types.string.html" class="type string">string</a></span>. If no language is set previously, it then returns
<strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>.
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.mb-send-mail.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">mb_send_mail()</a> - Send encoded mail</span></li>
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