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This kind of stream enables composing of external formats and
ligatures using Java-style encapsulations. An open composing-stream is connected
either to another composing-stream or to a base stream (either a
single-channel-simple-stream or a dual-channel-simple-stream).
A composing-stream has no
buffer of its own, but instead relies on state and on the buffering of
the base stream it is connected to. Read/write operations on
composing-streams are always done with respect to the next lower level
stream it is encapsulating.
Like its superclass string-simple-stream, a composing-stream transfers characters instead
of octets. However, unlike other string-simple-streams, external-format
processing is performed to translate one or more characters into one
or more characters, both while reading and while writing.
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Created 2010.1.21.
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