How can the issue of only special characters appearing instead of the PDF opening be resolved in PHP when using FPDF?

Issue: The problem of only special characters appearing instead of the PDF opening in FPDF can be resolved by ensuring that the correct encoding is used when adding text to the PDF document. This can be achieved by setting the font encoding to UTF-8 before adding any text to the PDF. 

// Set font encoding to UTF-8
$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Arial', '', 12);
$pdf->SetTextColor(0, 0, 0);
$pdf->SetFillColor(255, 255, 255);
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','',12);
$pdf->AddFont('Arial', '', 'arial.php');
$pdf->SetFont('Arial', '', 12, true);
$pdf->Cell(0, 10, 'Your text goes here', 0, 1, 'L');
$pdf->Output();

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FPDF special characters PDF encoding PHP

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