Name: nl37777			Date: 03/17/2003


The specifications of all PrintWriter.print methods say that text "is 
translated into bytes according to the platform��s default character 
encoding, and these bytes are written in exactly the manner of the 
java.io.Writer.write(int) method."

There are several problems with this:
- PrintWriter doesn't do any character conversion itself. It formats a 
variety of data types and passes the resulting character sequences on to 
an underlying writer.
- When eventually character conversion is performed, it may or may not 
use the default character encoding.
- The java.io.Writer.write(int) method doesn't take bytes, it takes a 
Unicode character.
- The print and write methods don't actually go through write(int); they 
use several different methods on the underlying writer, and according to 
the Writer class description the main bottleneck is the write(char[], 
int, int) method.

A correct specification would be that the text "is written to the 
underlying Writer."
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