   Get a future that will complete when the consumer closes, or when an
error occurs. This future is identical to the future returned by
<a href="dart-io/Socket/close.html">close</a>.
          <div class="features">read-only, inherited</div>
</dd>
        <dt id="encoding" class="property inherited">
          <span class="name"><a href="dart-io/IOSink/encoding.html">encoding</a></span>
          <span class="signature">&#8596; <a href="dart-convert/Encoding-class.html">Encoding</a></span>
        </dt>
  