[MSHARED-1453] Canonicalize properties files for reproducible builds

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Elliotte Rusty Harold opened MSHARED-1453 and commented

See discussion on https://github.com/apache/maven-archiver/pull/77/files

Briefly, properties files have non-unique representations and there's no guarantee two JDKs from different companies and Java versions produce the same byte-per-byte serialization. Our current code accounts for property order and comments, but not variations in escaping (hex vs. UTF-8), separator characters, and insignificant whitespace.

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• GitHub Pull Request #77