Problem with file and writing UTF-8 information into file

[raminaa niilian]

Hi
Thank you for reading my post
I have a problem with reading some UTF-8 information from a file and writing it as UTF-8 into another file.
imagine , i have a file that contains some utf-8 text ,(i can read them in windows using notepad/wordpad)
Now i want to write a java application to split the file into some more files and do some changes on them.

here is the method i used to read the file :

 
        File fIn =null;
        FileReader fr=null; 
fIn =  new File("c:/words.txt");
   fr = new FileReader(fIn);
  BufferedReader bfr =  new BufferedReader(fr);
   String s =bfr.readLine();

and this is how i write the file :

File fOut=null;
        FileWriter fw=null;
          fOut= new File("c:/prccessed/a.txt");
            fw = new FileWriter(fOut);
       fw.write(myChangeText);

That myChangedText is changed version of String that i read from utf-8 file.

the problem is that information that i see in a.txt are not readable?
even the file signature (EmEditor) shows that it is not a utf file.

i only can read the information if i open the file in OO or MS office , by selecting UTF-8 in select encoding dialog

can some one please help me about this ?
thanks

[Ulf Dittmer]

FileReader and FileWriter assume that you want to use the default character encoding, which in all likelihood is not UTF-8 (that's also stated in their respective javadocs). Use InputStreamReader and OutputStreamWriter to specify the encoding the files are in.

[Peter Chase]

Take care about the Byte Order Mark that some editors and applications will put at the start of a UTF-8-encoded text file, to mark it as such. Java's java.io.Reader generally won't recognise this as a Byte Order Mark, but will instead read it as a few junk characters at the start of the file.