o Change encoding/escaping of Strings to byte-based encoding.
o Add constant and some documentation
o Simplified String encoding.
[SUREFIRE-1021] New Parallel Computer for JUnit 4.7+
Submitted by: Tibor17

o Applied without any changes (just rebased w/o any conflicts and squashed)
[SUREFIRE-1020] Fix rewriting of chars in system-out and system-err that are illegal in XML 1.0/1.1
[SUREFIRE-1020] Extended unit test
Submitted by: Todor Todorov

o Applied without any changes
[SUREFIRE-998] Convert byte arrays to be written as CDATA to the XML file from Charset.defaultEncoding() to UTF-8