diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/IOUtils.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/IOUtils.java
index 45688ab18b4..e722ec37634 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/IOUtils.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/IOUtils.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
@@ -331,5 +332,24 @@ public final class IOUtils {
     }
   }
 
-
+  /**
+   * Copy one file's contents to another file. The target will be overwritten
+   * if it exists. The source must exist.
+   */
+  public static void copy(File source, File target) throws IOException {
+    FileInputStream fis = null;
+    FileOutputStream fos = null;
+    try {
+      fis = new FileInputStream(source);
+      fos = new FileOutputStream(target);
+      
+      final byte [] buffer = new byte [1024 * 8];
+      int len;
+      while ((len = fis.read(buffer)) > 0) {
+        fos.write(buffer, 0, len);
+      }
+    } finally {
+      close(fis, fos);
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/OpenExchangeRatesOrgProvider.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/OpenExchangeRatesOrgProvider.java
index c69c99f8e16..fed32408c70 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/OpenExchangeRatesOrgProvider.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/OpenExchangeRatesOrgProvider.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import java.util.Set;
 
 import org.apache.noggit.JSONParser;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.util.ResourceLoader;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException.ErrorCode;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
@@ -181,7 +182,7 @@ public class OpenExchangeRatesOrgProvider implements ExchangeRateProvider {
     private JSONParser parser;
     
     public OpenExchangeRates(InputStream ratesStream) throws IOException {
-      parser = new JSONParser(new InputStreamReader(ratesStream));
+      parser = new JSONParser(new InputStreamReader(ratesStream, IOUtils.CHARSET_UTF_8));
       rates = new HashMap<String, Double>();
       
       int ev;
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/TestSolrCoreProperties.java b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/TestSolrCoreProperties.java
index c9b739d6e42..6a27a09a5fb 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/TestSolrCoreProperties.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/TestSolrCoreProperties.java
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
  */
 package org.apache.solr;
 
+import org.apache.lucene.util.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.LuceneTestCase;
 import org.apache.solr.util.AbstractSolrTestCase;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.embedded.JettySolrRunner;
@@ -24,7 +25,6 @@ import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServer;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServerException;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.response.QueryResponse;
 import org.apache.solr.common.params.ModifiableSolrParams;
-import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 
 import java.io.*;
 import java.util.Properties;
@@ -115,29 +115,15 @@ public class TestSolrCoreProperties extends LuceneTestCase {
     confDir.mkdirs();
 
     File f = new File(confDir, "solrconfig.xml");
-    copyFile(SolrTestCaseJ4.getFile(getSolrConfigFile()), f);
+    IOUtils.copy(SolrTestCaseJ4.getFile(getSolrConfigFile()), f);
 
     f = new File(confDir, "schema.xml");
-    copyFile(SolrTestCaseJ4.getFile(getSchemaFile()), f);
+    IOUtils.copy(SolrTestCaseJ4.getFile(getSchemaFile()), f);
     Properties p = new Properties();
     p.setProperty("foo.foo1", "f1");
     p.setProperty("foo.foo2", "f2");
     FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(confDir + File.separator + "solrcore.properties");
     p.store(fos, null);
-    fos.close();
-    IOUtils.closeQuietly(fos);
-
-  }
-
-
-  private void copyFile(File src, File dst) throws IOException {
-    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(src));
-    Writer out = new FileWriter(dst);
-
-    for (String line = in.readLine(); null != line; line = in.readLine()) {
-      out.write(line);
-    }
-    in.close();
-    out.close();
+    IOUtils.close(fos);
   }
 }