A good answer might be:

Sure. It is a text file.

The file "reaper.txt" will be an ordinary ASCII, one byte per character text file. But character strings inside a Java program are two bytes per character. A Writer stream translates between the internal format and the external, disk file format.

As mentioned in the previous chapter, the disk file uses UTF ("Universal character set Transformation Format") which is identical to 8-bit ASCII format for the common characters of English. If you use a typical computer keyboard, you will not be able to type any other kind.

QUESTION 6:

What do you suppose closing a file does?