How can PHP scripts be optimized to efficiently handle the import of MySQL dumps with special characters?

Special characters in MySQL dumps can cause issues when importing data into a PHP script. To efficiently handle this, you can set the character encoding to UTF-8 in both the MySQL connection and the PHP script. This ensures that special characters are properly handled during the import process. 

// Set character encoding for MySQL connection
mysqli_set_charset($conn, 'utf8');

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

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