jruby/jruby — comment on commit ec24107b8cd7f88b473fd01f6f884beb1734fdaf
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By headius:

Originally I wanted to start unifying the many paths that handled encoding. Specifically, I believe I was getting File.open to work with an encoding option.

Feel free to refactor what's in place now to match MRI logic. The larger-scale refactoring I landed yesterday is part of an effort to clean up all of IO and make the behavior match MRI as closely as possible