How can PHP developers ensure that special characters like umlauts are properly handled in a PHP forum or editor?

Special characters like umlauts can be properly handled in a PHP forum or editor by ensuring that the correct character encoding is used. Developers can set the character encoding to UTF-8 in their PHP code to properly handle special characters. This can be done by adding a meta tag in the HTML header or setting the default_charset in the php.ini file. 

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

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