how to fetch mysql data with speacial characters in php

1$sql2 = "SELECT name,email,contact FROM tbl_leadads";
2  $result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql2);
3  //print_r($result);die;
4  if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {
5    echo "<table><thead><tr><th>NAME</th><th>EMAIL</th><th>CONTACT</th></tr></thead>";
6    // output data of each row
7    while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
8        //echo htmlspecialchars($row["name"]); 
9        echo "<tr><td>".htmlentities($row["name"])."</td><td>".$row["email"]."</td><td> ".htmlentities($row["contact"])."</td></tr>";
10    }
11    echo "</table>";
12  } else {
13    echo "0 results";
14  }
15  mysqli_close($conn);
16#try this
17echo htmlspecialchars($string);
18or
19echo htmlentities($string);
20//https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/htmlentities-vs-htmlspecialchars-function-in-php/#:~:text=htmlspecialchars()%20function%20convert%20the,applicable%20characters%20to%20HTML%20entities