What is the difference between Java's BufferedReader and InputStreamReader classes?

Question

What is the difference between Java\'s BufferedReader and InputStreamReader classes?

Answer 1

The InputStreamReader class adapts type InputStream (uninterpreted bytes) to the Reader class (bytes interpreted as characters in some character set), but does not apply any additional buffering. The BufferedReader class takes a Reader class (presumably unbuffered) and applies buffering to it.