diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/property.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/property.html
index 5a934e819..3552315ff 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/property.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/property.html
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ Two of the values are shown being echoed.
 </p> 
 
 <hr>
-<p align="center">Copyright &copy; 2001 Apache Software Foundation. All rights
+<p align="center">Copyright &copy; 2001-2002 Apache Software Foundation. All rights
 Reserved.</p>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Copy.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Copy.java
index 1640d5fb6..47efb956d 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Copy.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Copy.java
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ import java.util.Enumeration;
  * @author <a href="mailto:stefan.bodewig@epost.de">Stefan Bodewig</a>
  * @author <A href="gholam@xtra.co.nz">Michael McCallum</A>
  * @author <a href="mailto:umagesh@rediffmail.com">Magesh Umasankar</a>
+ *
+ * @version $Revision$
  */
 public class Copy extends Task {
     protected File file = null;     // the source file
@@ -109,6 +111,7 @@ public class Copy extends Task {
     protected Mapper mapperElement = null;
     private Vector filterSets = new Vector();
     private FileUtils fileUtils;
+    private String encoding = null;
 
     public Copy() {
         fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
@@ -163,6 +166,16 @@ public class Copy extends Task {
         preserveLastModified = preserve;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Whether to give the copied files the same last modified time as
+     * the original files.
+     *
+     * @since 1.32, Ant 1.5
+     */
+    public boolean getPreserveLastModified() {
+        return preserveLastModified;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Get the filtersets being applied to this operation.
      *
@@ -234,6 +247,24 @@ public class Copy extends Task {
         return mapperElement;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Sets the character encoding
+     *
+     * @since 1.32, Ant 1.5
+     */
+    public void setEncoding (String encoding) {
+        this.encoding = encoding;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return the character encoding, <code>null</code> if not set.
+     *
+     * @since 1.32, Ant 1.5
+     */
+    public String getEncoding() {
+        return encoding;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Performs the copy operation.
      */
@@ -422,7 +453,8 @@ public class Copy extends Task {
                         executionFilters.addFilterSet((FilterSet)filterEnum.nextElement());
                     }
                     fileUtils.copyFile(fromFile, toFile, executionFilters,
-                                       forceOverwrite, preserveLastModified);
+                                       forceOverwrite, preserveLastModified,
+                                       encoding);
                 } catch (IOException ioe) {
                     String msg = "Failed to copy " + fromFile + " to " + toFile
                         + " due to " + ioe.getMessage();
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Move.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Move.java
index 76d95bb50..acadd1742 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Move.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Move.java
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * The Apache Software License, Version 1.1
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2000-2001 The Apache Software Foundation.  All rights
+ * Copyright (c) 2000-2002 The Apache Software Foundation.  All rights
  * reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ import java.util.Enumeration;
  *
  * @author Glenn McAllister <a href="mailto:glennm@ca.ibm.com">glennm@ca.ibm.com</a>
  * @author <a href="mailto:umagesh@rediffmail.com">Magesh Umasankar</a>
+ *
+ * @version $Revision$
  */
 public class Move extends Copy {
 
@@ -155,7 +157,9 @@ public class Move extends Copy {
                                 executionFilters.addFilterSet((FilterSet)filterEnum.nextElement());
                             }
                             getFileUtils().copyFile(f, d, executionFilters,
-                                                    forceOverwrite);
+                                                    forceOverwrite,
+                                                    getPreserveLastModified(),
+                                                    getEncoding());
 
                             f = new File(fromFile);
                             if (!f.delete()) {
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Property.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Property.java
index d8fde8506..551404d4e 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Property.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Property.java
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * The Apache Software License, Version 1.1
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2000-2001 The Apache Software Foundation.  All rights
+ * Copyright (c) 2000-2002 The Apache Software Foundation.  All rights
  * reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ide/VAJWorkspaceScanner.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ide/VAJWorkspaceScanner.java
index d0baf302a..4eaf7c64d 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ide/VAJWorkspaceScanner.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ide/VAJWorkspaceScanner.java
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * The Apache Software License, Version 1.1
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2001 The Apache Software Foundation.  All rights
+ * Copyright (c) 2001-2002 The Apache Software Foundation.  All rights
  * reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtils.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtils.java
index 3b70a37a5..7da78bad1 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtils.java
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
 
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.text.DecimalFormat;
@@ -140,7 +142,7 @@ public class FileUtils {
                  overwrite, false);
     }
 
-     /**
+    /**
      * Convienence method to copy a file from a source to a
      * destination specifying if token filtering must be used, if
      * source files may overwrite newer destination files and the
@@ -156,6 +158,25 @@ public class FileUtils {
                  overwrite, preserveLastModified);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Convienence method to copy a file from a source to a
+     * destination specifying if token filtering must be used, if
+     * source files may overwrite newer destination files and the
+     * last modified time of <code>destFile</code> file should be made equal
+     * to the last modified time of <code>sourceFile</code>.
+     *
+     * @throws IOException 
+     *
+     * @since 1.14, Ant 1.5
+     */
+    public void copyFile(String sourceFile, String destFile, 
+                         FilterSetCollection filters, boolean overwrite, 
+                         boolean preserveLastModified, String encoding)
+        throws IOException {
+        copyFile(new File(sourceFile), new File(destFile), filters, 
+                 overwrite, preserveLastModified, encoding);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Convienence method to copy a file from a source to a destination.
      * No filtering is performed.
@@ -201,6 +222,26 @@ public class FileUtils {
     public void copyFile(File sourceFile, File destFile, FilterSetCollection filters,
                          boolean overwrite, boolean preserveLastModified)
         throws IOException {
+        copyFile(sourceFile, destFile, filters, overwrite, 
+                 preserveLastModified, null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Convienence method to copy a file from a source to a
+     * destination specifying if token filtering must be used, if
+     * source files may overwrite newer destination files, the last
+     * modified time of <code>destFile</code> file should be made
+     * equal to the last modified time of <code>sourceFile</code> and
+     * which character encoding to assume.
+     *
+     * @throws IOException 
+     *
+     * @since 1.14, Ant 1.5
+     */
+    public void copyFile(File sourceFile, File destFile, 
+                         FilterSetCollection filters, boolean overwrite, 
+                         boolean preserveLastModified, String encoding)
+        throws IOException {
         
         if (overwrite || !destFile.exists() ||
             destFile.lastModified() < sourceFile.lastModified()) {
@@ -217,8 +258,16 @@ public class FileUtils {
             }
 
             if (filters != null && filters.hasFilters()) {
-                BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(sourceFile));
-                BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(destFile));
+                BufferedReader in = null;
+                BufferedWriter out = null;
+
+                if (encoding == null) {
+                    in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(sourceFile));
+                    out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(destFile));
+                } else {
+                    in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(sourceFile), encoding));
+                    out = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(destFile), encoding));
+                }
 
                 int length;
                 String newline = null;
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/PropertyTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/PropertyTest.java
index f0b497463..55a22a726 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/PropertyTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/PropertyTest.java
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * The Apache Software License, Version 1.1
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2001 The Apache Software Foundation.  All rights
+ * Copyright (c) 2001-2002 The Apache Software Foundation.  All rights
  * reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without