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What is the difference between BufferedInputStream and BufferedReader?
BufferedInputStreams work on byte streams.
BufferedReaders work on character streams.
byte streams contain bytes each 8-bit long.
character streams contain (Unicode) characters each 16-bit long.
Before the JDK1.1, you could only use byte streams. However, if you wanted to read in
strings, you were in trouble, cause the method to do that did not properly convert bytes to
characters.
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Author of answer: Joris Van den Bogaert
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