Preserve Unicode strings when passed to utility functions #377
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First of all, best wishes for 2019.
This updates the string utility functions to return a Unicode string when a Unicode string is passed in. In Python 2 this would raise an error due to the use of str(v).
This is a change related to issue #374.
The tests also check for other types (int) to preserve existing functionality.