How can PHP be used to ensure that the text encoding on a webpage is consistent with UTF-8?

To ensure that the text encoding on a webpage is consistent with UTF-8, you can set the charset meta tag in the HTML header and also specify the content-type header in PHP. This will inform the browser to interpret the text on the webpage as UTF-8 encoded.

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<!-- Your webpage content here -->
</body>
</html>