Preserve single quote in text data.

Question

I have text data that is read into a BurrefedReader, some text contain single quoutes such as Ray's. When I retieve the data instead of seeing the single quote I see a square box replacing the single quote. What can I do in java to preserve the single quote?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Many thanks....here is my original code:
public static String ClobToString(Clob cl) throws IOException, SQLException
if (cl == null)
return "";
StringBuffer strOut = new StringBuffer();
String aux;
String aux2;
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(cl.getCharacterStream());
String ls =System.getProperty("line.separator");
while ((aux=br.readLine())!=null)
strOut.append(aux+ls);
return strOut.toString();
Here is the code with the encoding convertion:
public static String ClobToString(Clob cl) throws IOException, SQLException
if (cl == null)
return "";
StringBuffer strOut = new StringBuffer();
String aux;
String aux2;
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(cl.getCharacterStream());
String ls =System.getProperty("line.separator");
while ((aux=br.readLine())!=null)
strOut.append(aux+ls);
StringInputStream st = new StringInputStream(strOut.toString());
InputStreamReader inStreamReader=new InputStreamReader(st,"UTF-8");
BufferedReader bufReader=new BufferedReader(inStreamReader);
StringBuffer strOut2 = new StringBuffer();
while ((aux2=bufReader.readLine())!=null)
strOut2.append(aux2+ls);
return strOut2.toString();
I do thank you again for any help.