That depends on what you mean. If you just want to get rid of them, do this: (Update: Apparently you want to keep digits as well, use the second lines in that case)
You can use basic regular expressions on strings to find all special characters or use pattern and matcher classes to search/modify/delete user defined strings. This link has some simple and easy to understand examples for regular expressions: http://www.vogella.de/articles/JavaRegularExpressions/article.html
You can get unicode for that junk character from charactermap tool in window pc and add \u e.g. \u00a9 for copyright symbol.
Now you can use that string with that particular junk caharacter, don't remove any junk character but replace with proper unicode.
Here all the special characters except space, comma, and ampersand are replaced. You can also omit space, comma and ampersand by the following regular expression.