fprintf compatibility

[John W. Eaton]

What do you think about this feature of Matlab?

  >> fprintf ('%s\n', [111; 100; 100]);
  odd

I know that Matlab (originally, anyway, though perhaps not anymore)
stores strings as double precision matrices with a flag set saying to
interpret the numbers as ASCII and print them as strings, etc.  But
the matrix here is not even tagged as a string!

So, should Octave copy this bug^H^H^Hfeature?

jwe