What are the best practices for handling special characters like Umlauts in PHP scripts?

Special characters like Umlauts can cause encoding issues in PHP scripts if not handled properly. To ensure these characters are displayed correctly, it's important to set the correct character encoding in your PHP script using the `header()` function with the `Content-Type` header. Additionally, you can use functions like `utf8_encode()` or `utf8_decode()` to convert the encoding of strings containing special characters. 

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

$string_with_umlaute = 'Möglichkeiten';
$encoded_string = utf8_encode($string_with_umlaute);

echo $encoded_string;
?>

Keywords

UTF-8 htmlentities htmlspecialchars mb_convert_encoding iconv

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