How can setting the PHP header to UTF-8 help with displaying special characters correctly?

Setting the PHP header to UTF-8 helps with displaying special characters correctly by specifying the character encoding for the HTML document. This ensures that the browser interprets the special characters correctly and displays them as intended. 

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
?>

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PHP header UTF-8 special characters display

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