title: How to replace bullets with &bull;
body: <p>I am retrieving text data from a database which includes bullets and newlines. I have successfully removed the newlines and converted them to <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code> using the <code>nl2br()</code> function in PHP, but the bullets act weird and display "â€¢" instead of "•" (see screenshot).</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/KkLzg.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>I have tried using <code>htmlspecialchars()</code> function in PHP but it still displays the same output.</p>