title: Unable to remove bullet point ' • ' using php
body: <p>I am trying to read data from mysql which is having following data    </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;b&gt;Network Security, Router / Firewall&lt;/b&gt;
  
  • We have a minimum, sophisticated firewalls which has been deployed at all external connections (Example: Internet)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I am fetching and printing it using PHP and using <code>htmlentities()</code> like following<br>
  <code>echo $message=htmlentities($message);</code><br>
  I am getting empty space without any text.However by using the following code:    </p>
  
  <pre><code>$search = array(chr(145),chr(146),chr(147),chr(148),chr(151));
  $replace = array("'","'",'"','"','-');
  $message=str_replace($search, $replace, $message);
  echo $message;    
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am getting the following result:    </p>
  
  <pre><code>Network Security, Router / Firewall � We have a minimum, sophisticated firewalls which has been deployed at all external connections (Example: Internet)    
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please help me removing the unwanted � </p>