How can the handling of special characters like umlauts be improved in PHP scripts?

Special characters like umlauts can be properly handled in PHP scripts by using the mbstring extension, which provides multibyte specific string functions. By using functions like mb_convert_encoding() or mb_strtolower() with the appropriate encoding parameter (e.g., UTF-8), you can ensure that special characters are correctly processed in your PHP scripts. 

// Example PHP code snippet to handle special characters like umlauts using mbstring extension
$text = "Möglichkeit"; // Text with umlaut
$normalized_text = mb_convert_encoding($text, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8'); // Convert to UTF-8 encoding
echo $normalized_text; // Output: Möglichkeit

Keywords

UTF-8 htmlentities mb_convert_encoding htmlspecialchars multibyte strings

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