[9.1] (backport #18124) test: explicitly load ascii fixture as ascii, do line-oriented parsing

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What does this PR do?

Re-works the loading of a text fixture to be less susceptible to encoding-related issues so that they work reliably on both posix systems and windows. The fixtures are lower-ascii, and should be processed in a line-oriented way.

Why is it important/What is the impact to the user?

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• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
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• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works

Author's Checklist

• observe that the exhaustive tests

How to test this PR locally

Fixes a test that was failing only on Windows, so from a Windows dev environment:

./gradlew :logstash-core:javaTests --tests "org.logstash.EventTest"

Related issues

• Closes [Test Failure] deserializeStringrefExtension are failing on Windows #18122
• Relates pq: activate stringref extension for more-compact PQ representation #17849

Logs

EventTest > deserializeStringrefExtensionEnabled PASSED

-- exhaustive tests - Windows 2025

EventTest > deserializeStringrefExtensionDisabled PASSED

-- exhaustrive tests - Windows 2025

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