How can a web developer ensure that the web server's charset settings align with the PHP script's encoding?

To ensure that the web server's charset settings align with the PHP script's encoding, the web developer can explicitly set the charset in both the web server configuration and the PHP script. This ensures that the characters are interpreted correctly by both the server and the script, preventing any encoding issues. 

// Set charset in PHP script
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

// Set charset in web server configuration (e.g., Apache)
AddDefaultCharset utf-8

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web server charset settings PHP script encoding alignment

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