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Subject: Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile
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Lew schrieb:
> 'DataInput' already knows where the
 > characters begin, as it reads the source using 'readUTF()'.

But the problem is posed that I want to piggy pack arbitrary
encoders/decoders, not only UTF-8. For example UTF-16 etc..
Or some cyricllic code page which then needs to be mapped to
unicode.

How do think this is solved by readUTF()? And why do you
think that the file positions do not communicate between
the input stream and the raf, although they derive from
the same file descriptor. In fact they do.

Bye