Donovan Preston's patch #538395, with some mods by me.

Donovan Preston's patch #538395, with some mods by me.

This patch makes inheritance for OSA classes work. The implementation is a
bit convoluted, but I don't immedeately see a simpler way of doing it.

I added calls to ascii() everywhere we output strings that may contain
non-ascii characters (Python has gotten very picky since the encoding
patch:-).

I also removed Donovan's different way of opening resource files: I don't
seem to need it.