How can PHP beginners ensure that their email forms display special characters correctly, especially when using hosting services like 1&1?

Special characters may not display correctly in email forms due to character encoding issues. To ensure special characters display correctly, PHP beginners can set the correct character encoding in their PHP script before sending the email. This can be done by using the `header()` function to set the Content-Type header to include the charset parameter with the appropriate character encoding. 

<?php
// Set the correct character encoding for special characters
$charset = "UTF-8";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=".$charset . "\r\n";

// Other headers like From, Reply-To, etc.
$to = "recipient@example.com";
$subject = "Subject";
$message = "Message with special characters like é, ü, etc.";

// Send the email
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

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