Are there any best practices for handling special characters in URLs in PHP?

Special characters in URLs can cause issues such as encoding problems or breaking the URL structure. To handle special characters in URLs in PHP, it is recommended to use the urlencode() function to encode the special characters before appending them to the URL. 

$special_character = 'special character';
$encoded_special_character = urlencode($special_character);
$url = 'http://example.com/page.php?param=' . $encoded_special_character;
echo $url;

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