How can UTF-8 encoding be used to properly display Chinese characters in a PHP application?

To properly display Chinese characters in a PHP application, UTF-8 encoding should be used. This ensures that the characters are encoded and displayed correctly. To implement this, set the content type header to UTF-8 in the PHP file and use the mb_internal_encoding function to set the internal encoding to UTF-8.

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