How can the accept-charset attribute in HTML forms be utilized effectively when submitting kyrillische Zeichen to a PHP backend?

When submitting Cyrillic characters to a PHP backend, it is important to specify the character encoding in the HTML form using the accept-charset attribute. This ensures that the data is encoded correctly before being sent to the server. In PHP, you can then use the mb_convert_encoding function to convert the received data from the specified charset to UTF-8, which is commonly used for handling international characters.

// Specify the character encoding in the HTML form
<form action="submit.php" method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8">
  <input type="text" name="name">
  <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

// PHP backend code in submit.php
$data = $_POST['name'];
$data = mb_convert_encoding($data, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8'); // Convert to UTF-8 if needed
// Process the data further