Reading and writing files character encoding

Hi,
I am attempting to read a simple XML feed over HTTP and write it to my local
disk.  The feed has some spanish in it so there are non-US characters
present.  Currently I use a BufferedReader and InputStream to read the feed
and I write it to disk with FileWriter.  The problem is that the non-US
characters (such as the second character in this provice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaga) are mangled in the local copy that is
written.

Can someone explain how to deal with different character encodings in cases
such as this?  Do you need to know the encoding of the content you are
receiving?

Thanks,
Tony

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