Newline/Tab in makefile variable

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Published on 2010-05-14T00:48:43Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 0:54 UTC
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newline

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somevar := teststring\n
othervar := \tapple
target:
    echo $(somevar) $(othervar) > out.txt

Any idea how to describe special chars in variable?

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