diff --git a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/hash/VerificationUtilities.java b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/hash/VerificationUtilities.java
index 0e8ffed6..404a0312 100644
--- a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/hash/VerificationUtilities.java
+++ b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/hash/VerificationUtilities.java
@@ -2,19 +2,14 @@
 package net.sourceforge.filebot.hash;
 
 
-import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
+import static net.sourceforge.tuned.FileUtilities.*;
+
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStreamReader;
-import java.io.Reader;
 import java.util.Map.Entry;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
-import com.ibm.icu.text.CharsetDetector;
-import com.ibm.icu.text.CharsetMatch;
-
 
 public final class VerificationUtilities {
 	
@@ -50,19 +45,6 @@ public final class VerificationUtilities {
 	}
 	
 
-	public static VerificationFileReader createVerificationFileReader(File file, HashType type) throws IOException {
-		// detect charset and read text content
-		CharsetDetector detector = new CharsetDetector();
-		detector.setDeclaredEncoding("UTF-8");
-		detector.setText(new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file)));
-		
-		CharsetMatch charset = detector.detect();
-		Reader source = (charset != null) ? charset.getReader() : new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file), "UTF-8");
-		
-		return new VerificationFileReader(source, type.getFormat());
-	}
-	
-
 	private static String getHashFromVerificationFile(File folder, File target, HashType type, int depth, int maxDepth) throws IOException {
 		// stop if we reached max depth or the file system root
 		if (folder == null || depth > maxDepth)
@@ -70,7 +52,7 @@ public final class VerificationUtilities {
 		
 		// scan all sfv files in this folder
 		for (File verificationFile : folder.listFiles(type.getFilter())) {
-			VerificationFileReader parser = createVerificationFileReader(verificationFile, type);
+			VerificationFileReader parser = new VerificationFileReader(createTextReader(verificationFile), type.getFormat());
 			
 			try {
 				while (parser.hasNext()) {
diff --git a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/ui/panel/rename/MovieHashMatcher.java b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/ui/panel/rename/MovieHashMatcher.java
index 5acffc59..b3e1500f 100644
--- a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/ui/panel/rename/MovieHashMatcher.java
+++ b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/ui/panel/rename/MovieHashMatcher.java
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ class MovieHashMatcher implements AutoCompleteMatcher {
 		Set<Integer> collection = new HashSet<Integer>();
 		
 		for (File file : files) {
-			Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new FileInputStream(file));
+			Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new FileInputStream(file), "UTF-8");
 			
 			try {
 				// scan for imdb id patterns like tt1234567
diff --git a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/ui/panel/rename/NamesListTransferablePolicy.java b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/ui/panel/rename/NamesListTransferablePolicy.java
index c64e3ff3..1327c8aa 100644
--- a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/ui/panel/rename/NamesListTransferablePolicy.java
+++ b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/ui/panel/rename/NamesListTransferablePolicy.java
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ import static net.sourceforge.tuned.FileUtilities.*;
 import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
 import java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
@@ -116,10 +114,10 @@ class NamesListTransferablePolicy extends FileTransferablePolicy {
 	}
 	
 
-	protected void loadListFiles(List<File> files, List<Object> values) throws FileNotFoundException {
+	protected void loadListFiles(List<File> files, List<Object> values) throws IOException {
 		for (File file : files) {
 			// don't use new Scanner(File) because of BUG 6368019 (http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6368019)
-			Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new FileInputStream(file), "UTF-8");
+			Scanner scanner = new Scanner(createTextReader(file));
 			
 			while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
 				String line = scanner.nextLine().trim();
@@ -143,7 +141,7 @@ class NamesListTransferablePolicy extends FileTransferablePolicy {
 				continue;
 			
 			// add all file names from verification file
-			VerificationFileReader parser = createVerificationFileReader(verificationFile, type);
+			VerificationFileReader parser = new VerificationFileReader(createTextReader(verificationFile), type.getFormat());
 			
 			try {
 				while (parser.hasNext()) {
diff --git a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/ui/panel/sfv/ChecksumTableTransferablePolicy.java b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/ui/panel/sfv/ChecksumTableTransferablePolicy.java
index 8bc56202..bc8e0a34 100644
--- a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/ui/panel/sfv/ChecksumTableTransferablePolicy.java
+++ b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/ui/panel/sfv/ChecksumTableTransferablePolicy.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ package net.sourceforge.filebot.ui.panel.sfv;
 import static java.util.Collections.*;
 import static net.sourceforge.filebot.hash.VerificationUtilities.*;
 import static net.sourceforge.filebot.ui.NotificationLogging.*;
+import static net.sourceforge.tuned.FileUtilities.*;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@ class ChecksumTableTransferablePolicy extends BackgroundFileTransferablePolicy<C
 	
 
 	protected void loadVerificationFile(File file, HashType type) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
-		VerificationFileReader parser = createVerificationFileReader(file, type);
+		VerificationFileReader parser = new VerificationFileReader(createTextReader(file), type.getFormat());
 		
 		try {
 			// root for relative file paths in verification file
@@ -260,7 +261,7 @@ class ChecksumTableTransferablePolicy extends BackgroundFileTransferablePolicy<C
 		 * Completely read a verification file and resolve all relative file paths against a given base folder
 		 */
 		private Map<File, String> importVerificationFile(File verificationFile, HashType hashType, File baseFolder) throws IOException {
-			VerificationFileReader parser = createVerificationFileReader(verificationFile, hashType);
+			VerificationFileReader parser = new VerificationFileReader(createTextReader(verificationFile), hashType.getFormat());
 			Map<File, String> result = new HashMap<File, String>();
 			
 			try {
@@ -276,7 +277,6 @@ class ChecksumTableTransferablePolicy extends BackgroundFileTransferablePolicy<C
 			
 			return result;
 		}
-		
 	}
 	
 }
diff --git a/source/net/sourceforge/tuned/FileUtilities.java b/source/net/sourceforge/tuned/FileUtilities.java
index 235bfecb..70080f3a 100644
--- a/source/net/sourceforge/tuned/FileUtilities.java
+++ b/source/net/sourceforge/tuned/FileUtilities.java
@@ -2,11 +2,14 @@
 package net.sourceforge.tuned;
 
 
+import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileFilter;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.Reader;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -17,6 +20,9 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
+import com.ibm.icu.text.CharsetDetector;
+import com.ibm.icu.text.CharsetMatch;
+
 
 public final class FileUtilities {
 	
@@ -40,6 +46,20 @@ public final class FileUtilities {
 	}
 	
 
+	public static Reader createTextReader(File file) throws IOException {
+		CharsetDetector detector = new CharsetDetector();
+		detector.setDeclaredEncoding("UTF-8"); // small boost for UTF-8 as default encoding
+		detector.setText(new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file)));
+		
+		CharsetMatch charset = detector.detect();
+		if (charset != null)
+			return charset.getReader();
+		
+		// assume UTF-8 by default
+		return new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file), "UTF-8");
+	}
+	
+
 	/**
 	 * Pattern used for matching file extensions.
 	 *