From: Brian Mason <brian_at_gabey.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:54:31 -0700

I am still on 1.17
I am using "Natural" encoding but I want to override the long encoding to
make it a string so we dont loose digits when its encoded to JSON.
Any suggestions on how to do this (Or a better idea of how to do this?)

Thanks,
Brian Mason