What are the differences between ASCII and UTF-8 encoding in PHP and how can they affect file uploads?

ASCII encoding only supports 128 characters, while UTF-8 encoding can support up to 4 bytes per character, allowing for a wider range of characters including emojis and special characters. When handling file uploads in PHP, it is important to ensure that the encoding used is compatible with the characters in the file names to avoid any issues with file processing. 

// Set the encoding to UTF-8 for file uploads
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');

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