How can PHP be used to handle form submissions in different languages, such as Russian, while ensuring proper encoding?

When handling form submissions in different languages such as Russian, it is important to ensure that the data is properly encoded to prevent any character encoding issues. One way to handle this is by setting the appropriate character encoding in both the HTML form and the PHP script that processes the form data. This can be done by using the UTF-8 encoding, which supports a wide range of characters including those used in Russian. 

// Set the character encoding for the HTML form
<form accept-charset="UTF-8">

// Set the character encoding for the PHP script
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

// Process form data
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
    $name = htmlspecialchars($_POST['name'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
    $email = htmlspecialchars($_POST['email'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
    // Process other form fields as needed
}

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PHP form submissions multilingual encoding Russian

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