Back in December, I fixed groovy class parsing/caching. To do that, I introduced UtilIO.readString, to read an entire file into a stream. However, the implementation wasn't the best. It uses the single-arg InputStreamReader. What that means is that it uses the default platform charset for converting the bytes to characters.
This is an issue. When we(ofbiz developers) create the groovy files, we end up using whatever the default is for each system, commit to svn, and then have it checked out onto some other system; cue the clowns. I'm suggest that I'll modify UtilIO.readString, to force the encoding to always be UTF-8, which is the only sensible thing to do. This would mean all files would now have a sane encoding(at least, *.groovy to start with). ps: I should have broached this subject when I added UtilIO; we had this same problem with webslinger, and I went to great pains to force UTF-8 in all places.
