AW: [HACKERS] broken locale in 7.0.2 without multibyte support (FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE) ?

[Zeugswetter Andreas SB]

> Today I inserted (unsigned char) casts into all the <ctype.h> function
> calls I could find.  This issue should be fixed as of current cvs.
> Please try it again when you have time.

I am a sceptic to the many casts. Would'nt the clean solution be, to use
unsigned char througout the code ? The casts only help to avoid compiler
warnings or errors. They do not solve the underlying problem.

Andreas