Revision 1090649 of Content-Language

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<p>The <strong><code>Content-Language</code></strong> entity header is used to describe the language(s) of the resource, so that it allows a user to differentiate according to the users' own preferred language. If no <code>Content-Language</code> is specified, the default is that the content is intended for all language audiences. Multiple language tags are also possible, as well as applying the <code>Content-Language</code> header to various media types and not only to textual documents.</p>

<table class="properties">
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">Header type</th>
   <td>{{Glossary("Entity header")}}</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">{{Glossary("Forbidden header name")}}</th>
   <td>no</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Syntax">Syntax</h2>

<pre class="syntaxbox">
Content-Language: de-DE
Content-Language: en-US
Content-Language: de-DE, en-CA
</pre>

<h2 id="Directives">Directives</h2>

<dl>
 <dt><code>language-tag</code></dt>
 <dd>Multiple language tags are separated by comma. Each language tag is a sequence of one or more case-insensitive subtags, each separated by a hyphen character ("-", %x2D). In most cases, a language tag consists of a primary language subtag that identifies a broad family of related languages (e.g., "en" = English), which is optionally followed by a series of subtags that refine or narrow that language's range (e.g., "en-CA" = the variety of English as communicated in Canada).</dd>
</dl>

<h2 id="Specifications">Specifications</h2>

<table class="standard-table">
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <th scope="col">Specification</th>
   <th scope="col">Title</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{RFC("7231", "Content-Language", "3.1.3.2")}}</td>
   <td>Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2>

<p class="hidden">To contribute to this compatibility data, please write a pull request against this file: <a href="https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/blob/master/http/headers.json">https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/blob/master/http/headers.json</a>.</p>

<p>{{Compat}}</p>

<h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>

<ul>
 <li>{{HTTPHeader("Accept-Language")}}</li>
</ul>