How can one ensure that the JSON output from a PHP script correctly represents special characters like umlauts?

Special characters like umlauts can be correctly represented in JSON output from a PHP script by using the `JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE` flag when encoding the data. This flag ensures that Unicode characters are not escaped, preserving their original representation in the JSON output. 

$data = ["text" => "Möglichkeit"]; // Data containing special characters
$json = json_encode($data, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE); // Encode data with JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE flag
echo $json; // Output JSON with correct representation of special characters

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JSON PHP script special characters umlauts encoding

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