Are there any best practices for handling special characters, such as Umlaute, in PHP file uploads?

Special characters, such as Umlaute, can cause issues when handling file uploads in PHP due to encoding differences. To handle special characters properly, it is recommended to normalize the file name using functions like `iconv` or `mb_convert_encoding` to ensure compatibility across different systems. 

// Normalize the file name to handle special characters
$normalizedFileName = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $_FILES['file']['name']);

// Move the uploaded file with the normalized file name
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], 'uploads/' . $normalizedFileName);

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UTF-8 htmlspecialchars mb_convert_encoding file uploads htmlentities

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