Are there specific PHP functions or settings that can help prevent errors when dealing with UTF-16 directory names in PHP scripts?

When dealing with UTF-16 directory names in PHP scripts, it is important to ensure that your script is properly configured to handle multibyte characters. One way to prevent errors is to set the internal encoding to UTF-8 using the `mb_internal_encoding()` function. Additionally, you can use the `mb_convert_encoding()` function to convert UTF-16 strings to UTF-8 before working with them in your script.

// Set internal encoding to UTF-8
mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');

// Convert UTF-16 directory name to UTF-8
$utf8DirectoryName = mb_convert_encoding($utf16DirectoryName, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16');