(FWD) Re: patch to accept \t as a character by `strings'

[David O'Brien]

----- Forwarded message from David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> -----
|> Below is a patch so that `strings' output matches that of other systems.
|> BSD since 1986/11/24 have defined <tab> to be a printable character (bug
|> report 4.3BSD/ucb/9).  HP-UX (since at least 10.20), Irix (since at least
|> 5.3) also interprets <tab> this way.

Is there any problems with committing this to HEAD and the 2.10 branch?