Unicode changes to support QRF

fixing unit tests

fixing merge error

fixing xqueue submission issue with unicode url (trial 0.1)

fixing fotmats as commented upon

removing yaml file language selection

Unicode changes to support QRF

removed unnecessary pass in modulestore/init.py

fixing merge error

fixing fotmats as commented upon

removing yaml file language selection

fixing pep8 violations

- fixing pylint violations

pylint violation

fixing line spaces and formats

ignore pylint E1101

remove empty line

fixing pylint violations

 pep8 violations

bulk mail unicode/decode

fix migration error

fix pep8 just to push again

more unicode/decode
Final changes to comments and error messages.

cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/component.py

@@ -267,8 +267,7 @@ def unit_handler(request, tag=None, package_id=None, branch=None, version_guid=N
         preview_lms_base = settings.FEATURES.get('PREVIEW_LMS_BASE')
 
         preview_lms_link = (
-            '//{preview_lms_base}/courses/{org}/{course}/'
-            '{course_name}/courseware/{section}/{subsection}/{index}'
+            u'//{preview_lms_base}/courses/{org}/{course}/{course_name}/courseware/{section}/{subsection}/{index}'
         ).format(
             preview_lms_base=preview_lms_base,
             lms_base=settings.LMS_BASE,

cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/course.py

@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ def create_new_course(request):
     run = request.json.get('run')
 
     try:
-        dest_location = Location('i4x', org, number, 'course', run)
+        dest_location = Location(u'i4x', org, number, u'course', run)
     except InvalidLocationError as error:
         return JsonResponse({
             "ErrMsg": _("Unable to create course '{name}'.\n\n{err}").format(
@@ -286,8 +286,10 @@ def create_new_course(request):
     course_search_location = bson.son.SON({
         '_id.tag': 'i4x',
         # cannot pass regex to Location constructor; thus this hack
-        '_id.org': re.compile('^{}$'.format(dest_location.org), re.IGNORECASE),
-        '_id.course': re.compile('^{}$'.format(dest_location.course), re.IGNORECASE),
+        # pylint: disable=E1101
+        '_id.org': re.compile(u'^{}$'.format(dest_location.org), re.IGNORECASE | re.UNICODE),
+        # pylint: disable=E1101
+        '_id.course': re.compile(u'^{}$'.format(dest_location.course), re.IGNORECASE | re.UNICODE),
         '_id.category': 'course',
     })
     courses = modulestore().collection.find(course_search_location, fields=('_id'))

cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/preview.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def handler_prefix(block, handler='', suffix=''):
     Trailing `/`s are removed from the returned url.
     """
     return reverse('preview_handler', kwargs={
-        'usage_id': quote_slashes(str(block.scope_ids.usage_id)),
+        'usage_id': quote_slashes(unicode(block.scope_ids.usage_id).encode('utf-8')),
         'handler': handler,
         'suffix': suffix,
     }).rstrip('/?')