How can PHP developers handle multibyte character encoding issues when retrieving data from a MySQL database?

Multibyte character encoding issues can be handled by setting the correct character set and collation for the database connection in PHP. This can be done using the `SET NAMES` query after connecting to the database. Additionally, PHP developers can use functions like `mb_convert_encoding` to convert strings between different character encodings when retrieving data from the MySQL database. 

// Connect to the MySQL database with the correct character set and collation
$connection = new mysqli('localhost', 'username', 'password', 'database');
$connection->query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");

// Retrieve data from the database
$query = "SELECT * FROM table";
$result = $connection->query($query);

// Handle multibyte character encoding
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
    $data = mb_convert_encoding($row['column_name'], 'UTF-8', 'auto');
    // Process the data further
}

// Close the database connection
$connection->close();

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