Is it necessary to convert umlauts to HTML entities when working with UTF-8 encoding in PHP, or are there alternative methods to ensure proper display?

When working with UTF-8 encoding in PHP, it is not necessary to convert umlauts to HTML entities for proper display. Instead, you can use the `header()` function to set the content type to UTF-8 and ensure that the umlauts are displayed correctly. 

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

$text = "Möglichkeiten"; // Umlaut example

echo $text;
?>

Keywords

UTF-8 encoding umlauts HTML entities display conversion

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