Reading "special" characters from a file

I have a text file that I have created in Default Unicode font. In this file I have some "special" characters. These are the euro symbol, the British Pound symbol and 1 other character that I don't know the name of but looks like this ?

I have code that is trying to read this file in by creating a BufferedReader from a FileReader which was created on this file. I am getting a

sun.io.MalformedException when reading this file. It apears that the euro sign and these other character I don't know the name of are causing the problem. I know this because if I take them out of the file I don't get the error.

Any idea how I fix this problem ? I have been looking into UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding but can't quite seem to figure it out.....

Thanks in Advance

[790 byte] By [franoa] at [2007-11-27 2:20:38]