Pádraig Brady 57110d8bae cut: implement -n to avoid outputting partial characters ...

Both the i18n patch and FreeBSD/macOS support this option.
They do differ in behavior somewhat as the i18n patch
may output more bytes than requested.

  $ printf '\xc3\xa9b\n' | i18n-cut -n -b1
  é

There is also a bug in the i18n patch with multi-byte
at the start of a line:

  $ printf '\xc3\xa9b\n' | i18n-cut -n -b1-2
  éb

We follow the FreeBSD behavior since it seems more
useful to have -b be a hard limit, rather than a soft limit.
This also reduces the possibility of duplicate character output
with separate cut invocations with non overlapping byte ranges.

* src/cut.c (cut_bytes_no_split): A new function
similar to cut_characters, to handle multi-byte characters
with byte limit semantics.
* tests/cut/cut.pl: Add test cases.

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