How can PHP developers ensure consistent character encoding across their database and scripts when working with different providers?

To ensure consistent character encoding across their database and scripts when working with different providers, PHP developers can set the character encoding for both their database connection and their PHP scripts to UTF-8. This will help prevent any issues with special characters or encoding mismatches. 

// Set character encoding for database connection
$pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=my_database', 'username', 'password', array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8"));

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

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