Conversion from uint8 to char fails

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Apr-2009, Judd Storrs wrote:

| Here's another difference between octave and matlab:
| 
| octave:1> x = char(uint8(65))
| warning: range error for conversion to character value
| error: value on right hand side of assignment is undefined
| 
| matlab> x = char(uint8(65))
| 
| x =
| 
| A

I checked in the following change:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/7120fbbecf97

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Thanks,

jwe