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> From: Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:38:17 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> But I seem to recall that the C library's printf library has some feature
> for dealing with this already in the format specifier, e.g.
> 
>       printf ("%2$s is %1$s", "foo", "bar");
>       =| bar is foo
> 
> and wondered if this would be worth adding this functionality to emacs's
> message function as part of the basic functionality for i18n in elisp
> packages.

IMHO, such a functionality is a must for supporting bidirectional
languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.