Set up Transifex to pull the country name translations.
Pulled current "countries" translations from Transifex.
Build picard-countries.po for enabled languages.
Add script to take country names from db into a Python script.
Add countries.py as generated by country_sql2py.py.
Replace the release countries in const.py with import from countries.py.
Declare source code encodings.
Replace C_() with a regular call to dgettext().
Make the country names unicode strings again.
Remove gettext calls from generated file.

The call should happen in the UI, even if it currently isn't.
See PICARD-221.
Pulled latest country translations from Transifex.
Code style fixes for better adherence to PEP8.
Use str.format() instead of concatenating.

str.format() is standard for Python 3+ (replacing the "%" formatting)
and available since Python 2.6:
http://docs.python.org/release/2.6/library/stdtypes.html#str.format
Implement function C_() for translating country names.
Add note to NEWS.txt about PICARD-005 being fixed.
Using list comprehension courtesy of bitmap.
Added license declaration to the sql2py script.