avoid problems with sign-extended "char" operand to is* functions

* src/cut.c (set_fields): Apply to_uchar to isblank operands.
* src/uniq.c (find_field): Likewise.
* src/seq.c (scan_arg): Likewise, for isspace.
* tests/misc/uniq: New file.  Test for the above, but only
when isspace(0240).
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/uniq.
* configure.ac: Use gt_LOCALE_FR.
* tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Propagate LOCALE_FR to scripts.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fixes.

Before this patch, on FreeBSD 6:

  $ printf 'x y z\nx \xa0 y z\n' > in
  $ LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 uniq -f2 in|tr ' ' .
  x.y.z
  x. .y.z

With the patch:

  $ LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 uniq -f2 in|tr ' ' .
  x.y.z

This also affected many other locales:
for i in $(locale -a); do test $(LC_ALL=$i ./uniq -f1 in|wc -l)
  = $(LC_ALL=$i uniq -f1 in|wc -l) || echo $i ; done
...
en_GB.ISO8859-1
en_GB.ISO8859-15
en_GB.UTF-8
en_IE.UTF-8
en_NZ.ISO8859-1
en_NZ.ISO8859-15
en_NZ.UTF-8
en_US.ISO8859-1
en_US.ISO8859-15
en_US.UTF-8
...

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 6a7c5a8df..7e5546a45 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -335,6 +335,9 @@ AC_SUBST([CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES])
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-formatstring-macros])
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.15])
 
+# For a test of uniq: it uses the $LOCALE_FR envvar.
+gt_LOCALE_FR
+
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(
   Makefile
   doc/Makefile