How can one ensure the proper handling of special characters, such as semicolons and text qualifiers, when processing text data in PHP?

When processing text data in PHP, special characters such as semicolons and text qualifiers can cause issues if not handled properly. To ensure their proper handling, one can use functions like addslashes() to escape special characters before processing the text data. 

// Example code snippet to properly handle special characters in text data
$text = "This is a text with a semicolon; and some 'text qualifiers'";
$escaped_text = addslashes($text);

// Process the escaped text data
echo $escaped_text;

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