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Re: Postel's law, exceptions


Re:  Postel's law
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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