This document discusses I/O streams in Java, which allow reading and writing of data from sources and to destinations. It describes input and output streams, character and byte streams, and the Unicode standard for representing written languages internationally. Unicode was developed to solve the problems with different encodings for languages in various standards, and assigns a unique code value to each character. The document also mentions the File class, which contains methods for obtaining file properties and renaming/deleting files, and BufferedReader and BufferedWriter which improve I/O performance.
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