Mon-Ouie/ray — comment on commit 83043c64b3eb998dea7a0f03f056eb87761f559d
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By Mon-Ouie:

Checking for feature instead of version — maybe some version, while still 1.8 compatible, could implement part of the encoding manipulation methods (though that actually seems very unlikely).

In this case all I really care about is removing the warning in 1.9.3, requiring iconv being unneeded there since any 1.9 version will support encoding.