Answer:
Sure. It is a text file.
Sure. It is a text file.
The file reaper.txt is an ordinary ASCII
text file, with one byte per character.
Character strings inside a running Java program
are two bytes per character.
A Writer stream
translates between the internal format
and the external, disk file format.
As mentioned in the previous chapter, the disk file uses UTF ("Unicode Transformation Format") which is identical to 8-bit ASCII format for the common characters of English. In the USA, text files are usually ASCII (and therefore also UTF).
What do you suppose closing a file does?