4.2.10 Language

Basic Definition | Description| | Example

Basic Definition

Parameter Name: LANGUAGE
Purpose: To specify the language for text values in a property or property parameter.

Format Definition

The property parameter is defined by the following
notation:

  languageparam =    "LANGUAGE" "=" language

  language = <Text identifying a language, as defined in [RFC 1766]>

Description

This parameter can be specified on properties with a text value type. The parameter identifies the language of the text in the property or property parameter value. The value of the "language" property parameter is that defined in [RFC 1766].

For transport in a MIME entity, the Content-Language header field can be used to set the default language for the entire body part. Otherwise, no default language is assumed.

Example


  SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=us-EN:Company Holiday Party

  LOCATION;LANGUAGE=en:Germany
  LOCATION;LANGUAGE=no:Tyskland


The following example makes use of the Quoted-Printable encoding in
order to represent non-ASCII characters.

  LOCATION;LANGUAGE=da:K=F8benhavn
  LOCATION;LANGUAGE=en:Copenhagen

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