Add _compat module to define text_type on Py 2 and 3.

The old way worked, but gave a linting error because unicode is not defined.

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diff --git a/src/zope/i18n/_compat.py b/src/zope/i18n/_compat.py
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+# This gives a linting error because unicode is not defined on Python 3:
+# text_type = str if bytes is not str else unicode
+try:
+    # Python 3
+    text_type = unicode
+except NameError:
+    # Python 2
+    text_type = str