Name: bk70084 Date: 06/25/98


"normally", to prepare to read from a file, you can use

FileReader fr = new FileReader("nameoffile");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);


But if you want to use a different character encoding, you have
to do

FileInputStream instr = new FileInputStream("nameoffile")
InputStreamReader instrR = new InputStreamReader(instr,"ENCODING");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(instrR);


Compare this to the "old" way:
BufferedInputStream bis =
  new BufferedInputStream(new InputStream("nameoffile", "ENCODING"));


Not only is the new way ugly, it feels like it is less efficient.
Please be more considerate of cross-locale coding, and add
methods to change the encoding at the FileReader() level.
(Review ID: 34240)
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