don't unconditionally unparse CHARACTER-SET types into MEMBER types

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 changes relative to sbcl-1.0.56:
+  * RANDOM enhancements and bug fixes:
+    ** bug fix: the range and distribution of random integers could be
+       catastrophically wrong when the compiler derived the type of its
+       argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
+    ** bug fix: the distribution of random integers is now completely
+       uniform even when the specified limit is not a power of two.
+       (Previously some values could be about 0.1 % more probable than
+       others in the worst case.)
+    ** RANDOM on large integer arguments is generally faster and conses
+       less than before; this is visible for fixnums above a length of
+       about 24 bits, but extremely so for bignums: the old implementation
+       used time and space quadratical in the size of the argument there,
+       the new one is linear.
+  * enhancement: redesigned protocol for quitting SBCL. SB-EXT:EXIT is the new
+    main entry point, SB-EXT:QUIT is deprecated.
+  * enhancement: additions to the SB-THREAD API: RETURN-FROM-THREAD,
+    ABORT-THREAD, MAIN-THREAD-P, and MAIN-THREAD.
+  * enhancement: FASL loading no longer grabs the world-lock.
   * enhancement: GENCGC reclaims space more aggressively when objects being
     allocated are a large fraction of the total available heap space.
     (lp#936304)
+  * enhancement: backtraces show the correct number of arguments for frames
+    called with too many arguments.
+  * enhancement: support for abort(3), exit(3), and _exit(2) has been added to
+    SB-POSIX.
   * optimization: fewer uses of full calls to signed modular functions.
     (lp#903821)
+  * optimization: typechecking alien values is typically 5 x faster.
+  * optimization: FDEFINITION, SYMBOL-FUNCTION, MACRO-FUNCTION, and FBOUNDP
+    are 20% faster.
+  * bug fix: file compilation performance issues when dumping subtypes
+    of CHARACTER (lp#994487)
   * bug fix: fixed disassembly of some SSE instructions on x86-64.
   * bug fix: SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS signals an error for bogus :CLASS arguments in
     OPEN. (lp#969352, thanks to Kambiz Darabi)
@@ -24,6 +51,15 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.56:
   * bug fix: fix miscompilation of some logand forms with large constant
     arguments.  (lp#974406)
   * bug fix: account for funcallable-instance objects properly in ROOM.
+  * bug fix: incorrect octets reported for c-string decoding errors.
+    (lp#985505)
+  * bug fix: miscompilation of LDB on the PowerPC platform.  (thanks to Bruce
+    O'Neel)
+  * bug fix: better input error reporting for COMPILE-FILE. (lp#493380)
+  * bug fix: default size of non-nursery generations has been shrunk on GENCGC,
+    allowing faster release of memory back to the OS. (lp#991293)
+  * bug fix: WITH-DEADLINE (:SECONDS NIL :OVERRIDE T) now drops any
+    existing deadline for the dynamic scope of its body.
   * documentation:
     ** improved docstrings: REPLACE (lp#965592)