What are some common issues with decoding text in PHP, especially when dealing with special characters like umlauts?

When decoding text in PHP, especially when dealing with special characters like umlauts, a common issue is character encoding mismatches. To solve this, you can use the PHP function `mb_convert_encoding()` to convert the text to the desired encoding, such as UTF-8. This will ensure that special characters are correctly decoded and displayed. 

$text = "Möglichkeiten"; // Text with special characters
$decoded_text = mb_convert_encoding($text, 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1'); // Convert encoding
echo $decoded_text; // Output: Möglichkeiten

Keywords

UTF-8 encoding decoding special characters multibyte strings

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