Added merge_module function. Added text module (currently having encoding only). Updated the FileSystem File object with readText, writeText methods (removed the FileReader, FileWriter classes).

text/index.ts

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+declare var module, require;
+module.exports = require("text/text");

text/text.android.ts

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+export module encoding {
+    export var ISO_8859_1 = "ISO-8859-1";
+    export var US_ASCII = "US-ASCII";
+    export var UTF_16 = "UTF-16";
+    export var UTF_16BE = "UTF-16BE";
+    export var UTF_16LE = "UTF-16LE";
+    export var UTF_8 = "UTF-8";
+}

text/text.d.ts

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+/**
+* Defines the supported character encodings.
+*/
+export declare module encoding {
+    export var ISO_8859_1: any;
+    export var US_ASCII: any;
+    export var UTF_16: any;
+    export var UTF_16BE: any;
+    export var UTF_16LE: any;
+    export var UTF_8: any;
+} 

text/text.ios.ts

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+export module encoding {
+    export var ISO_8859_1 = 5; //NSISOLatin1StringEncoding
+    export var US_ASCII = 1; //NSASCIIStringEncoding
+    export var UTF_16 = 10; //NSUnicodeStringEncoding
+    export var UTF_16BE = 0x90000100; //NSUTF16BigEndianStringEncoding
+    export var UTF_16LE = 0x94000100; //NSUTF16LittleEndianStringEncoding
+    export var UTF_8 = 4; //NSUTF8StringEncoding
+}