preferredLanguage

Origin

Messaging Server 5.0, Calendar Server, Directory Server

Syntax

RFC 2798, cis, single-valued

Object Classes

icsCalendarUser, inetMailGroup, inetOrgPerson, iPlanetPreferences, mailDomain

Definition

Preferred written or spoken language for a person. The value for this attribute should conform to the syntax for HTTP Accept-Language header values.

Messaging Server uses this attribute to figure the locale. It does not use the locale specified with iPlanetPreferences.

Also used by Access Manager in user LDAP entries to store a user’s preferred language. Note that only Access Manager uses the iPlanetPreferences object class to host this attribute.

Table 3–18 Language Strings for preferredLanguage Attribute

Language String	Language
de	German
en	English
es	Spanish
fr	French
ja	Japanese
ko	Korean
zh-CN	Chinese - People’s Republic of China
zh-TW	Chinese - Taiwan

Example

preferredLanguage:en

OID

2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.39