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// Interface to objects that translate InputStreams to Readers by auto-detection
package com.onegravity.rteditor.converter.tagsoup;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.InputStream;
/**
* Classes which accept an InputStream and provide a Reader which figures out
* the encoding of the InputStream and reads characters from it should conform
* to this interface.
*
* @see java.io.InputStream
* @see java.io.Reader
*/
public interface AutoDetector {
/**
* Given an InputStream, return a suitable Reader that understands the
* presumed character encoding of that InputStream. If bytes are consumed
* from the InputStream in the process, they <i>must</i> be pushed back onto
* the InputStream so that they can be reinterpreted as characters.
*
* @param i The InputStream
* @return A Reader that reads from the InputStream
*/
public Reader autoDetectingReader(InputStream i);
}