Forcing dspace.cfg and email files to be read in UTF-8
Also read license files UTF-8 encoded.

Close Reader an InputStreams after using them.
Merge pull request #199 from tuub/ds-1469

Read config, email and license files UTF-8 encoded, fixes DS-1469 partly
DS-1540 : Fix .gitignore to only ignore custom *.properties in the root source folder.
Merge pull request #209 from tdonohue/master

DS-1540 - Fix .gitignore to only ignore custom *.properties in root folder