Problem reading/writing U.K. pound sign

I am reading and writing a files which contains the U.K pound sign =A3

But it is not being written correctly to the output file, even though
I am specifying UTF-8

Should this code work?

Reading :

      InputStream fr;
      BufferedReader br;
      try {
        fr = new FileInputStream(strDocumentFile);
        br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fr, "UTF-8"));
      }
      catch (java.io.FileNotFoundException e) {
        String strReturn = "FileNotFoundException trying to open " +
strInFile;
        traceError (strReturn);
        return strReturn;

      }

     catch (java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        String strReturn = "FileNotFoundException trying to open " +
strInFile;
        traceError (strReturn);
        return strReturn;

      }

      String s = null;
      do {
        try {
            s = br.readLine();

        } catch (Exception e) {
            String strReturn = getExceptionStackString(e) + " while
reading " + strInFile;
            traceError (strReturn);
            return strReturn;
        }

Writing :

      OutputStream fw;
      BufferedWriter bw;
      try {
        fw = new FileOutputStream(strOutFile,true);
        bw = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(fw, "UTF-8"));
      }
      catch (java.io.FileNotFoundException e) {
        strReturn = "FileNotFoundException trying to open " +
strOutFile;
        traceError (strReturn);
        return strReturn;

      }

     catch (java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        strReturn = "FileNotFoundException trying to open " +
strOutFile;
        traceError (strReturn);
        return strReturn;

      }

      bw.write(s);