Read arabic from a file

Question

Hello everybody,
I try to read arabic unicode signs from a file into a String within my program.
I create the file using simple windows notepad.
The sign Im wrinting look perfectly arabic (although I actually cant read it).
Now when I start my program and read the signs it doesnt read arabic signs but signs that are within the Unicode range 0000 - 00FF wich is Latin + Latin-1 Supplement.
But I expect the sign beeing somewhere arround 0600 - 06FF.
I have the feeling its realated to a codepage or encodeing thing, but I dont really know a lot about it.
Can you somehow help me?
Do you need more information?
Can you tell me where I can get some usefull information?
Thank you!
Stefan

Answer 1

OK, here is the code
private static ArrayList<String> readLinesFromFile(File file){
       ArrayList<String> toReturn = new ArrayList<String>();
       try {
          Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);
          while(scanner.hasNextLine()){
             String line = scanner.nextLine();
             toReturn.add(line);
      } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
       return toReturn;
}