Using generic printf/format like function for localization is a bad idea anyway. Proper localization libraries have features like handling of plurals. Nothing p

Using generic printf/format like function for localization is a bad idea anyway. Proper localization libraries have features like handling of plurals. Nothing prevents a localization library from creating it's own formatting function, which it would have to do it anyway since the formatting syntax for each of commonly used localization file formats (po,xlif,ts, ...) likely differs from format function in the programming language X.