FileInputStream vs FileReader

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Yes, your conclusion is correct subclasses of Reader and Writer are for reading/writing text content. InputStream / OutputStream are for binary content. If you take a look at the documentation:

Reader – Abstract class for reading character streams

InputStream – Abstract class is the superclass of all classes representing an input stream of bytes.

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