How can special characters, such as umlauts, impact the functionality of preg_match in PHP?

Special characters, such as umlauts, can impact the functionality of preg_match in PHP because they may not be matched correctly due to encoding issues. To solve this problem, you can use the 'u' modifier in the preg_match function to ensure that Unicode characters are properly matched. 

$string = "Mötorcÿcle";
$pattern = '/[a-zA-Z]+/u';

if (preg_match($pattern, $string)) {
    echo "Match found!";
} else {
    echo "No match found.";
}

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