Character Streams handle I/O of character data, automatically handling translation to and from the local character set. All character stream classes are descended from Reader and Writer. As with byte streams, there are character stream classes that specialize in file I/O: FileReader and FileWriter. The Java platform stores character values using Unicode conventions Character stream I/O automatically translates this internal format to and from the local character set. In Western locales, the local character set is usually an 8-bit superset of ASCII.
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