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Amelia A Lewis scripsit:
> It was an interesting argument. I found myself in the position of
> arguing that *all* character streams in Java have encodings (including
> java.lang.String). The counter to this is a filter stream, such as a
> TeeWriter (I was arguing that the problem was that Java did not provide
> a getEncoding() method on all streams).
I think you have a hold of the right stick, but at the wrong end.
Byte streams have encodings if they represent text, but at the level of
character streams, encodings have been abstracted away.
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