Set the default client character set in PHP

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<?php
     $con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","test");
     // Check connection
     if (mysqli_connect_errno()){
          echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
     }
   
     // Change character set to utf8
     mysqli_set_charset($con,"utf8");
   
     mysqli_close($con);
?>