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<refentry xml:id="function.mb-language" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>mb_language</refname>
  <refpurpose>Set/Get current language</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
   
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>mixed</type><methodname>mb_language</methodname>
   <methodparam choice="opt"><type>string</type><parameter>language</parameter><initializer>mb_language()</initializer></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   Set/Get the current language.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>language</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Used for encoding
       e-mail messages. Valid languages are "Japanese",
       "ja","English","en" and "uni"
       (UTF-8). <function>mb_send_mail</function> uses this setting to
       encode e-mail.
      </para>
      <para> 
       Language and its setting is ISO-2022-JP/Base64 for
       Japanese, UTF-8/Base64 for uni, ISO-8859-1/quoted printable for
       English.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 
 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   If <parameter>language</parameter> is set and
   <parameter>language</parameter> is valid, it returns
   &true;. Otherwise, it returns &false;. 
   When <parameter>language</parameter> is omitted, it returns the language
   name as a <type>string</type>. If no language is set previously, it then returns
   &false;.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member><function>mb_send_mail</function></member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

</refentry>

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