What are the potential pitfalls of using multiple character sets in PHP and MySQL, as seen in the forum thread?

Using multiple character sets in PHP and MySQL can lead to issues with data consistency and display. It's important to ensure that both PHP and MySQL are using the same character set to prevent encoding problems. To solve this, set the character set for both PHP and MySQL to UTF-8, which is widely supported and can handle most characters. 

// Set character set for PHP
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');

// Set character set for MySQL connection
$mysqli = new mysqli('localhost', 'username', 'password', 'database');
$mysqli->set_charset('utf8');

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character sets PHP MySQL encoding compatibility

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