* Remove rustc_serialize support
* Add changelist and bump version number for alpha
* Move refbox and friends into own module
* update changelog
* update travis config
* move serde functions out into global namespace
`char` in rust is 32-bits long, but is encoded using utf-8. Previously,
bincode would assume the worst and say that chars are 4-bytes long
always, when in reality, they are often only 1 byte long.
This commit fixes that bug, adds a test for it, and does some general
cleanup in the library.
Ty Overby
crhino