removing a bunch of newgem cruft
getting rid of more cruft

What even *is* this stuff?
adding a simple gemspec
Merge branch 'gemming'
get rid of all trailing whitespace
Convert README to markdown
fix encoding for 1.9

iconv is deprecated, and `String#force_encoding` seems to work from my
experiments.
get rid of bad array-inject-to-hash pattern
update specs for encoding fixes

Or something. I'm not really sure what I'm doing *or* why it works.
clean up whitespace in History.txt
update version and History.txt