Why is setting the character encoding to UTF-8 important for resolving special character display issues in HTML?

Special characters like emojis or non-English characters may not display correctly in HTML if the character encoding is not set to UTF-8. To resolve this issue, you need to specify the UTF-8 character encoding in the HTML document using the meta tag <meta charset="UTF-8">. 

&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;meta charset=&quot;UTF-8&quot;&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Special Character Display&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Special Characters: 😊 &eacute;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;

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