How it works...

The package golang.org/x/text/encoding/charmap contains the Charset type for simple encoding and decoding. The type implements the NewDecoder method that creates the Decoder structure.

Steps 1 – 5 show the use of the decoding Reader.

The encoding works analogically. The encoding Writer is created and then each string written by this Writer is encoded into Windows-1250 encoding.

Note that the Windows-1250 was chosen as an example. The package, golang.org/x/text/encoding/charmap contains a lot of other charset options.