Fix UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in posi…

…tion 7-8: ordinal not in range(128) issue for long course names

gen_cert.py

@@ -572,8 +572,8 @@ def _generate_v1_certificate(
             0, 0.624, 0.886)
         styleOpenSans.alignment = TA_LEFT
 
-        paragraph_string = "<b><i>{0}: {1}</i></b>".format(
-            self.course, self.long_course.decode('utf-8'))
+        paragraph_string = u"<b><i>{0}: {1}</i></b>".format(
+            self.course, self.long_course)
         paragraph = Paragraph(paragraph_string, styleOpenSans)
         # paragraph.wrapOn(c, WIDTH * mm, HEIGHT * mm)
         if 'PH207x' in self.course:
@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ def _generate_verification_page(self, name, filename, output_dir, verify_uuid, d
             valid_page = f.read().decode('utf-8')
         valid_page = valid_page.format(
             COURSE=self.course.decode('utf-8'),
-            COURSE_LONG=self.long_course.decode('utf-8'),
+            COURSE_LONG=self.long_course,
             ORG=self.org.decode('utf-8'),
             ORG_LONG=self.long_org.decode('utf-8'),
             NAME=name.decode('utf-8'),