diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/LineOrientedOutputStream.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/LineOrientedOutputStream.java
index 6f15defc1..3c0df4d9e 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/LineOrientedOutputStream.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/LineOrientedOutputStream.java
@@ -70,13 +70,13 @@ public abstract class LineOrientedOutputStream extends OutputStream {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Converts the buffer to a string and sends it to
+     * Converts the buffer to a byte[] and sends it to
      * <code>processLine</code>
      * @throws IOException if there is an error.
      */
     protected void processBuffer() throws IOException {
         try {
-            processLine(buffer.toString());
+            processLine(buffer.toByteArray());
         } finally {
             buffer.reset();
         }
@@ -90,6 +90,23 @@ public abstract class LineOrientedOutputStream extends OutputStream {
      */
     protected abstract void processLine(String line) throws IOException;
 
+    /**
+     * Processes a line.
+     *
+     * <p>This implementations invokes the string-arg version
+     * converting the byte array using the default encoding.
+     * Subclasses are encouraged to override this method (and provide
+     * a dummy implementation of the String-arg version) so they don't
+     * interfere with the encoding of the underlying stream.</p>
+     *
+     * @param line the line to log.
+     * @throws IOException if there is an error.
+     * @since Ant 1.8.3
+     */
+    protected void processLine(byte[] line) throws IOException {
+        processLine(new String(line));
+    }
+
     /**
      * Writes all remaining
      * @throws IOException if there is an error.
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/LineOrientedOutputStreamRedirector.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/LineOrientedOutputStreamRedirector.java
index 6a8fbf96e..6ce302de2 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/LineOrientedOutputStreamRedirector.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/LineOrientedOutputStreamRedirector.java
@@ -33,10 +33,21 @@ public class LineOrientedOutputStreamRedirector
         extends
             LineOrientedOutputStream {
     private OutputStream stream;
+
+    // these should be in the ASCII range and hopefully are single bytes
+    // (for LF and CR respectively) for any encoding thrown at this class
+    private static final byte[] EOL =
+        System.getProperty("line.separator").getBytes();
+
     public LineOrientedOutputStreamRedirector(OutputStream stream) {
         this.stream = stream;
     }
     
+    protected void processLine(byte[] b) throws IOException {
+        stream.write(b);
+        stream.write(EOL);
+    }
+    
     protected void processLine(String line) throws IOException {
         stream.write((line + System.getProperty("line.separator")).getBytes());
     }