Content-Language

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Content-Language is an HTTP header field that indicates the natural language(s) intended for the audience of the enclosed content.

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Content-Language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf HTTP header field
entity header field
response header field
appliesTo HTTP requests (message bodies)
HTTP responses
canAppearIn HTTP message headers
category representation metadata
definedIn RFC 2616
differsFrom Accept-Language
emptyValueMeaning no specific language intended
exampleValue en
en-US
fr, en
governedBy HTTP semantics
governs language of the entity-body
headerName Content-Language
helpsWith indexing content by language
rendering language-specific features
selecting appropriate language versions of a resource
indicates intended natural language of the enclosed content
intended natural languages of the enclosed content
introducedIn HTTP/1.1
isCaseInsensitive header field name is case-insensitive
isEndToEnd true
languageTagStandard IETF BCP 47
surface form: BCP 47

RFC 3066 (obsolete)
IETF BCP 47
surface form: RFC 5646
mayBeCached true
multipleValuesAllowed true
partOf HTTP/1.1 specification
relatedTo Accept-Language
semantics describes the language intended for the audience, not the language of user preferences
does not affect how the content is processed by HTTP itself
standardizedBy Internet Engineering Task Force
surface form: IETF
status standard HTTP header
updatedBy RFC 7231
usedBy assistive technologies
content negotiation mechanisms
search engines
user agents
usedFor content negotiation
internationalization
localization
usedWith HTML documents
JSON documents
XML documents
valueFormat comma-separated list of language tags
valueSyntax one or more language tags

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RFC 7231 definesHeaderField Content-Language