Merge branch 'unicode-strings' into 'master'

doc/index.rst

doc/strings.rst

extras/log-tools/find-crashes.py

extras/monitor/mutalyzer-monitor.py

extras/soap-tools/batchjob.py

extras/soap-tools/checkSyntax.py

extras/soap-tools/chromAccession.py

extras/soap-tools/descriptionExtract.py

extras/soap-tools/getCache.py

extras/soap-tools/getGeneAndTranscript.py

extras/soap-tools/getGeneName.py

extras/soap-tools/getTranscripts.py

extras/soap-tools/getTranscriptsAndInfo.py

extras/soap-tools/getTranscriptsByGeneName.py

extras/soap-tools/getTranscriptsMapping.py

extras/soap-tools/getdbSNPDescriptions.py

extras/soap-tools/info.py

extras/soap-tools/mappingInfo.py

extras/soap-tools/numberConversion.py

extras/soap-tools/runMutalyzer.py