[issue15216] Support setting the encoding on a text stream after creation

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> The proposal [1] is that TextIOWrapper support a set_encoding() method 
> that is only supported between creation of the stream and the first
> read or write operation.

That will be fragile. A bit of prematurate input or output (for whatever reason) and your program breaks.

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