* Added wrapper to use PYTHON environment variable in tests
* Added unicode comment to default test config
* Changed config objects to use locale encoding
* Changed to use byte buffers for config (re-)writing
* Added tests for unicode sensitive tools

Configuration: simplified commented namelist settings at the end of a group by adding a special variable '.end'

Also removed description of old, namelist file level .remove facility

Global/Templates: changed version info to be retrieved from version control system; changed 'mkexp_input' variable to show package version