Language.matches

Checks if a language tag matches one of the elements in a list of language ranges.

A language tag is considered to match a range in the list if the range is '*', the range is exactly the tag, or the range is a prefix of the tag, and the character after it in the tag is '-'.

class Language
bool
matches
(
string rangeList
)

Parameters

rangeList string

a list of language ranges, separated by ';', ':', ',', or space characters. Each element must either be '*', or a RFC 3066 language range canonicalized as by pango.language.Language.fromString

Return Value

Type: bool

true if a match was found