How can different web browsers, such as Firefox and Internet Explorer, affect the way special characters are stored and displayed in a MySQL database when using PHP?

Different web browsers can affect the way special characters are stored and displayed in a MySQL database when using PHP due to differences in character encoding. To ensure consistent storage and display of special characters, it is important to set the appropriate character set in both the HTML meta tag and the MySQL connection. This can be achieved by setting the character set to UTF-8 in both the HTML meta tag and the MySQL connection. 

// Set character set in HTML meta tag
<meta charset="UTF-8">

// Set character set in MySQL connection
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "username", "password", "database");
$mysqli->set_charset("utf8");

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