How does encoding affect using Reader / writer classes or Stream classes in Java ?

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Q1. How does encoding affect using Reader / writer classes or Stream classes in Java ?

Ans. Which group of bytes represent which character is defined by character encoding. So when reading character by character from a stream of bytes using Reader, specifying character encoding becomes significant as the same group of bytes can represent different character in different character encoding(Eg UTF-8 and UTF-16 etc.)

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