XSL-FO unable to read special characters from the XML file

Team,
please help on issue, when trying to read the text from XML file (Special characters like bullet). It is displaying as Question mark(?) in output in place of bullet..please proved any soultion.

The "?" signals a character set mismatch issue - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/globalization/nls-lang-099431.html - between client and database software

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