diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/pmd/CpdViolationCheckMojo.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/pmd/CpdViolationCheckMojo.java
index 9fab222d..3feab0d1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/pmd/CpdViolationCheckMojo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/pmd/CpdViolationCheckMojo.java
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@
  */
 
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException;
@@ -114,13 +115,12 @@ protected void printError( Duplication item, String severity )
      * {@inheritDoc}
      */
     @Override
-    protected List<Duplication> getErrorDetails( File cpdFile )
-        throws XmlPullParserException, IOException
+    protected List<Duplication> getErrorDetails( File cpdFile ) throws XmlPullParserException, IOException
     {
-        try ( FileReader fileReader = new FileReader( cpdFile ) )
+        try ( InputStream in = new FileInputStream( cpdFile ) )
         {
             CpdXpp3Reader reader = new CpdXpp3Reader();
-            CpdErrorDetail details = reader.read( fileReader, false );
+            CpdErrorDetail details = reader.read( in, false );
             return details.getDuplications();
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/pmd/PmdViolationCheckMojo.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/pmd/PmdViolationCheckMojo.java
index 8ff7e623..39cb7ef2 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/pmd/PmdViolationCheckMojo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/pmd/PmdViolationCheckMojo.java
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@
  */
 
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -124,14 +125,12 @@ protected void printError( Violation item, String severity )
     }
 
     @Override
-    protected List<Violation> getErrorDetails( File pmdFile )
-        throws XmlPullParserException, IOException
+    protected List<Violation> getErrorDetails( File pmdFile ) throws XmlPullParserException, IOException
     {
-        try ( FileReader reader1 = new FileReader( pmdFile ) )
+        try ( InputStream in = new FileInputStream( pmdFile ) )
         {
             PmdXpp3Reader reader = new PmdXpp3Reader();
-            PmdErrorDetail details = reader.read( reader1, false );
-
+            PmdErrorDetail details = reader.read( in, false );
             List<Violation> violations = new ArrayList<>();
             for ( PmdFile file : details.getFiles() )
             {