Does ctype.h still require unsigned char?

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do you still strictly speaking have to use unsigned char to avoid undefined behavior in modern versions of C?

Yes, from the C11 draft standard section 7.4 Character handling <ctype.h> paragraph 1 says (emphasis mine):

The header declares several functions useful for classifying and mapping
characters.198) In all cases the argument is an int, the value of which shall be
representable as an unsigned char or shall equal the value of the macro EOF. If the
argument has any other value, the behavior is undefined.

This also holds for draft C99 standard as well, you can find it in the same section.

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