title: pyplot tab character
body: <p>I am trying to use the tab character in pyplot. However, the tab character is displaying a square, not the tab space I require.</p>
  
  <p>My code is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>fig = pl.figure()
  fig.text(.1,.05, "test \t test", bbox=dict(facecolor='red', alpha=0.5))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does anyone know why this doesn't work?</p>