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typing: add trivial type hints to the convert extension's common modules

This started as ensuring that the `encoding` and `orig_encoding` attributes has
a type other than `Any`, so pytype can catch problems where it needs to be str
for stdlib encoding and decoding.  It turns out that adding the hint in
`mercurial.encoding` is what was needed, but I picked a bunch of low hanging
fruit while here.  There's definitely more to do, and I see a problem where
`shlex.shlex` is being fed bytes instead of str, but there are not enough type
hints yet to make pytype notice.

cHg
===

A fast client for Mercurial command server running on Unix.

Install:

 $ make
 $ make install

Usage:

 $ chg help                 # show help of Mercurial
 $ alias hg=chg             # replace hg command
 $ chg --kill-chg-daemon    # terminate background server

Environment variables:

Although cHg tries to update environment variables, some of them cannot be
changed after spawning the server. The following variables are specially
handled:

 * configuration files are reloaded automatically by default.
 * CHGHG or HG specifies the path to the hg executable spawned as the
   background command server.

The following variables are available for testing:

 * CHGDEBUG enables debug messages.
 * CHGSOCKNAME specifies the socket path of the background cmdserver.
 * CHGTIMEOUT specifies how many seconds chg will wait before giving up
   connecting to a cmdserver. If it is 0, chg will wait forever. Default: 60

Build environment variables:

 * HGPATH: the path to the hg executable to call when CHGHG and HG are not set,
   instead of "hg"
 * HGPATHREL=1: when CHGHG and HG are not set, the hg executable will be ./hg
   relative to the chg executable. Only works on linux, falls back to "hg"
   otherwise.