diff and patch: support special characters in filenames with quoting as well as unusual timestamp formats

After further research and testing, I've produced a patch which handles
all filenames with special characters by copying the GNU quoting
behavior, and also treats anything following a tab as a timestamp. This
increases both ability to handle possible filenames and ability to
apply patches found in the field.

In diff, quote and escape filenames according to the following rules.
* Surround the filename with quotes if it contains a byte less than 0x20,
  a byte greater than or equal to 0x80, space, backslash, or quote.
* Replace alert, backspace, form feed, newline, carriage return, tab, vertical
  tab, backslash, and quote with \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, \\, and \",
  respectively.
* Replace other bytes less than 0x20 or greater than or equal to 0x80 with a
  backslash followed by the three octal digits representing the value of the
  byte.
* Treat valid UTF-8 characters involving sequences of bytes greater than or
  equal to 0x80 the same as other sequences of such bytes.

In patch, process quoted and escaped filenames according to the following
rules.
* If the filename does not begin with a quote, do not modify the filename.
* Remove quotes surrounding the filename.
* In quoted filenames, replace \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, \\, and \" with
  alert, backspace, form feed, newline, carriage return, tab, vertical tab,
  backslash, and quote, respectively.
* In quoted filenames, replace a backslash followed by octal digits with the
  byte with that value in octal.

Also, in patch, treat anything on a +++ or --- line following a tab character
after the beginning of the filename as a timestamp, rather than part of the
filename.

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