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accept.language_lookup

STRINGaccept.language_lookupSTRINGrequested_languagesSTRINGdefaultSTRINGaccept_header

Available inall subroutines.

Selects the best match from a string in the format of an Accept-Language header's value in the listed languages using the algorithm described in RFC 4647, Section 3.4.

This function takes the following parameters:

  1. a colon-separated list of languages available for the resource,
  2. a fallback return value,
  3. a string representing an Accept-Language header's value.

This function conforms to RFC 4647.

Example

set bereq.http.Accept-Language =
  accept.language_lookup("en:de:fr:nl", "en",
    req.http.Accept-Language);

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