visad/src/main/java/ucar/nc2/iosp/gempak/GempakParameterTable.java
private String readContents(InputStream is) throws IOException {
    return new String(readBytes(is), CDM.utf8Charset);
  }
private String readContents(InputStream is) throws IOException {
    return new String(readBytes(is), CDM.utf8Charset);
  }
Read in the bytes from the given InputStream
and construct and return a String.
Closes the InputStream argument.

@param is InputStream to read from
@return contents as a String
@throws IOException problem reading contents