How can PHP developers ensure that their scripts and databases support UTF-8 encoding for proper character handling?

PHP developers can ensure that their scripts and databases support UTF-8 encoding by setting the character set to UTF-8 in both the script and the database connection. This ensures that all data is stored and retrieved in UTF-8 format, allowing for proper handling of special characters. 

// Set UTF-8 encoding in PHP script
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');

// Set UTF-8 encoding in database connection
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "username", "password", "database");
$mysqli->set_charset("utf8");

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