Converting line endings corrupts ISO-8859-1 files when platform encoding is 
UTF-8
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                 Key: MASSEMBLY-371
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-371
             Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 2.2-beta-2
         Environment: Linux with platform encoding set to UTF-8
            Reporter: Håvard Wigtil
         Attachments: assembly-encoding.zip

Converting line endings for a text file encoded in ISO-8859-1 replaces any 
character in the set above ASCII with the three characters ᅵ.
What happens is that the file to be converted is read as text in the platform 
encoding (seems to be method readFile in class FileFormatter), and when the 
platform encoding is UTF-8, any non-ASCII character from ISO-8859-1 is 
converted to the UTF-8 character "�" (i.e. the placeholder for unknown / 
broken character). 

I've attached a small sample project that shows this problem on Linux with 
platform encoding set to UTF-8.

I see two possible fixes for this, one is to read the file as bytes and do a 
search /replace for line endings, and the other is to be able to specify 
encoding for a fileset or file.

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