What best practices can be followed to avoid character encoding errors like the ones discussed in the forum thread?

Character encoding errors can be avoided by ensuring that all text data is properly encoded and decoded using the correct character set. One common solution is to use UTF-8 encoding for all text data to ensure compatibility across different systems and platforms. 

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

// Encode text data using UTF-8
$text = "Hello, 你好";
$encoded_text = mb_convert_encoding($text, 'UTF-8');

// Decode text data using UTF-8
$decoded_text = mb_convert_encoding($encoded_text, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8');

echo $decoded_text;

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character encoding PHP UTF-8 htmlspecialchars mb_convert_encoding

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