* lib/rexml/encoding.rb: use Ruby native encoding mechnism. [ruby-dev:42464]

* lib/rexml/encodings/: remove.

* lib/rexml/document.rb, lib/rexml/formatters/default.rb,
  lib/rexml/output.rb, lib/rexml/parseexception.rb,
  lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb, lib/rexml/source.rb,
  lib/rexml/xmldecl.rb: use Ruby's native Encoding object.

* test/rexml/, test/rss/: follow the above encoding chagnes.

* NEWS: add REXML's incompatible change about encoding.


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@29646 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cb0b46b52f..23e944e2b0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
   * extended methods:
     * StringIO#set_encoding can get 2nd argument and optional hash.
 
+* rexml
+  * [incompatible] support Ruby native encoding mechanism
+    and iconv dependency is droped. This means encoding
+    methods (Document#encoding, XMLDecl#encoding,
+    Output#encoding and Source#encoding) return an Encoding
+    object instead of an encoding name.
+
 === Language changes
 
 * Regexps now support Unicode 6.0 (new characters and scripts)
@@ -83,3 +90,8 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
 * Kernel#respond_to?
 
   See above.
+
+* REXML::Document#encoding, REXML::XMLdecl#encoding,
+  REXML::Output#encoding and REXML::Source#encoding
+
+  Return an Encoding object not encoding name as a String.