I have to prepare a .txt file and count how many times each character of alphabet occurs in the file. I've found a very nice piece of code, but unfortunately, it doesn't work with Polish characters like ą,ę,ć,ó,ż,ź. Even though I put them in the array, for some reason they are not found in the .txt file so the output is 0. 

Does anyone know why? Maybe I should count them differently, with "Switch" or something similar. 
Before anyone asks - yes, the .txt file is saved with UTF-8 :)

```
public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
        int ch;
        BufferedReader reader;
        try {
            int counter = 0;

            for (char a : "AĄĆĘÓBCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ".toCharArray()) {
                reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("C:\\Users\\User\\Desktop\\pan.txt"));
                char toSearch = a;
                counter = 0;

                try {
                    while ((ch = reader.read()) != -1) {
                        if (a == Character.toUpperCase((char) ch)) {
                            counter++;
                            }
                    }

                } catch (IOException e) {
                    System.out.println("Error");
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
                System.out.println(toSearch + " occurs " + counter);

            }
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

```