Pango.Language.from_string
Description: Reference for Pango.Language.from_string

### Function

# Pango Languagefrom_string

#### Declaration [src]

    PangoLanguage*
    pango_language_from_string (
      const char* language
    )

#### Description [src]

Convert a language tag to a `PangoLanguage`.

The language tag must be in a RFC-3066 format. `PangoLanguage` pointers can be efficiently copied (copy the pointer) and compared with other language tags (compare the pointer.)

This function first canonicalizes the string by converting it to lowercase, mapping ‘_’ to ‘-‘, and stripping all characters other than letters and ‘-‘.

Use `pango_language_get_default()` if you want to get the `PangoLanguage` for the current locale of the process.

#### Parameters

`language` | `const char*`
| A string representing a language tag.
| The argument can be `NULL`.
| The data is owned by the caller of the function.
| The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

#### Return value

Returns: | `PangoLanguage`
| A `PangoLanguage`
| The data is owned by the called function.
| The return value can be `NULL`.