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implement Read::read_to_string on top of Decoder::decode_to_string

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#4 opened on Aug 8, 2018

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This is a possibly somewhat common method, and the decoder in this crate could implement it more efficiently by avoiding UTF-8 re-validation. See @hsivonen's comment here: https://github.com/hsivonen/encoding_rs/issues/8#issuecomment-411356371

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Implement the Read::read to string trait method by leveraging the Decoder::decode to string function to avoid re validation of UTF 8, following the suggestion in the linked comment.
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rust
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backend
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