Patching does not respect the encoding attribute of maven-compiler-plugin

[garyhodgson]

Running error-prone with the -XepPatchChecks compiler option on a codebase using en encoding other than UTF-8 results in corrupted characters.

It appears that the patch logic hardcodes the UTF_8 Charset when reading (and writing?) the source files, e.g. here, thus ignoring the 'encoding' attribute of the maven-compiler-plugin (which defaults to project.build.sourceEncoding)

I don't know if this is necessarily something to fix. We only noticed it in an older codebase that is not yet migrated to UTF-8 and our workaround is to disable errorprone until we migrate. Perhaps just a warning in the documentation would suffice.