Can"t read Arabic text file in Java

i am trying to read arabic text using Java , yet the scanner does not see any elements and thus reading is unsuccessful although LineNumberReader recognizes lines in the text file.

i have tried the same code on English text and it works fine.

i am using netbeans 7.0.1

here is my code :

public class ReadFile {

    private int number_of_words;

    private File f1;

    private String array[][],lines[];

    private Scanner scan1;



    public ReadFile(String sf1) throws FileNotFoundException

    {

        f1=new File(sf1);

        scan1=new Scanner(f1);



    }



    public String[][] getA()

    {

        return array;

    }



    public void read() throws IOException

    {

        int counter=0,i=0;



        LineNumberReader  lnr = new LineNumberReader(new FileReader(f1));

        lnr.skip(Long.MAX_VALUE);

        number_of_words=lnr.getLineNumber();

        array = new String[2][number_of_words];

        lines = new String[number_of_words];

        while(scan1.hasNext())

      {

        String temp;

        temp=scan1.nextLine();

        lines[counter++] = temp;

                        System.out.println(lines[counter-1]+"\t"+lines.length);



      }



       Arrays.sort(lines);

       counter=0;



       while(i<lines.length)

       {

           String temp = lines[i++];

           StringTokenizer tk=new StringTokenizer(temp,"\t");



           array[0][counter] = tk.nextToken();

           array[1][counter++] = tk.nextToken();

       }

     }

 }