title: special characters in unknown format. Howto convert in JAVA
body: <p>I have a lot of characters I wish to convert to readable characters. I do not know what kind of format my characters are or from where they come ( old code ). How can I convert these characters in readable characters ?</p>
  
  <p>I found some characters ( but not all ) on the following List:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://www.utf8-zeichentabelle.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?utf8=char
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My characters in for me unknown charactersset:</p>
  
  <pre><code>static String unknowncharacters[] = {"â€“", "Â’", "Â–", "Â–", "Â’", "Âž", "Â–", "Âž", "â€™", "Å¾", "'", "Â´", "Ã©", "Ã©", "ÃŸ", "?", "Âš", "Â–", "Å‚",
              "Ã¸", "Ã¡", "Ã±","È™","Ã«","Ä�","á»“","Ã ","Â½","Ã­","Ä±","Ãº","Å�","Ã²","Å¡","Ã³","Ã†","Ä�","á¸¤","Ä«","Å«","Å�","Ã¦"}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I programmatically convert my characters in JAVA , so I will get all my unknown characters.</p>