fix some tests; hard tabs required!
normalize regexp indenting
refuse to parse non-ASCII distnames for now

(approved by rjbs, dagolden, andk)
in a trial release, -TRIAL is not part of the version

discussed with/approved by xdg, andk, oanders, rjbs
-TRIAL2 (and -TRIAL0 and -TRIAL999) are ok
Merge pull request #2 from rjbs/qah-2014-misc

misc. patches from the 2014 QA Hackathon