unable to read special characters

sir i am using stream tokenizer to read a file from a diskbut the tokenizer is not reading some special charactersi tried in many ways can any one can help me out
[183 byte] By [nagaraja] at [2007-10-2 21:07:04]
# 1
You need to check the string encoding you are using.
Peter__Lawreya at 2007-7-13 23:52:39 > top of Java-index,Core,Core APIs...