How to specify encoding in Java?

From: Konrad Den Ende (chamsterkonrad_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 01/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:30:29 +0100

I've been looking around and i've been given some hints but
i simply can't get to the bottom of it. How do i specify the
character encoding for reading text froma file? 

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