formatter: extract function that encode values to json string
This is the stub for tuple support, which will be used to encode ctx.date()
in the same manner as jsonchangeset printer.
$ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "mq=" >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg init
$ echo 'base' > base
$ hg ci -Ambase
adding base
$ hg qnew -mmqbase mqbase
$ hg qsave
$ hg qrestore 2
restoring status: hg patches saved state