very minor tweak to FlatFileReader so you can pass in the encoding

src/FubuCore/Binding/FlatFileReader.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using System.IO;
+using System.Text;
 using FubuCore.Util;
 using Microsoft.Practices.ServiceLocation;
 
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ public void ReadFile(FlatFileRequest<T> request)
         {
             using (var stream = new FileStream(request.Filename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
             {
-                var reader = new StreamReader(stream);
+                var reader = new StreamReader(stream, request.Encoding);
                 var headers = reader.ReadLine();
                 if (headers.IsEmpty()) return;
 

src/FubuCore/Binding/FlatFileRequest.cs

@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
 using System;
+using System.Text;
 
 namespace FubuCore.Binding
 {
     public class FlatFileRequest<T>
     {
+        public FlatFileRequest()
+        {
+            Encoding = Encoding.Default;
+        }
+
         public Action<T> Callback { get; set; }
         public Func<IRequestData, T> Finder { get; set; }
         public string Filename { get; set; }
         public string Concatenator { get; set; }
+        public Encoding Encoding { get; set; }
     }
 }

src/FubuMVC.UI/Extensibility/IContentExtension.cs

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ public interface IContentExtension<T> where T : class
         IEnumerable<object> GetExtensions(IFubuPage<T> page);
     }
 
+
+
     public class LambdaExtension<T> : IContentExtension<T> where T : class
     {
         private readonly Func<IFubuPage<T>, object> _func;
@@ -52,6 +54,8 @@ public void Register<T>(IContentExtension<T> extension) where T : class
             shelfFor<T>().Add(string.Empty, extension);
         }
 
+        // Deep in the bowells of FubuMVC, this is the actual code that writes extensions
+        // into a FubuPage
         private static void apply<T>(IEnumerable<IContentExtension<T>> extensions, IFubuPage<T> page) where T : class
         {
             var writer = page.ServiceLocator.GetInstance<IOutputWriter>();