String encoding/decoding and I/O

[brson]

How do we deal with string encoding of I/O? The existing implementation uses extension methods on Readers and Writers, but this is not sufficient because it doesn't maintain any state. Need a better understanding of the requirements here.

[alexcrichton]

Nominating, we need to deal with this.

[brson]

Big thread an this subject https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-September/005503.html

[klutzy]

api proposal: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Proposal-for-character-encoding-API

[pnkfelix]

accepted for 1.0 in that we to at least define our story around this. documentation if nothing else.