What are the potential issues when using PHPMailer for sending emails with special characters like umlauts?

When using PHPMailer for sending emails with special characters like umlauts, the potential issue is that the characters may not be displayed correctly in the recipient's email client due to encoding problems. To solve this, you can set the CharSet property of PHPMailer to UTF-8 to ensure proper encoding of special characters. 

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;

// Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer();

// Set the CharSet to UTF-8
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';

// Rest of your email sending code

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