I18n and constructed strings

Hi,
	Just wondering what other people are doing with constructing
internationalized strings.  What I mean is, say you want to inform how
far through a process you are by displaying a string which, in English
comes out in the form
"x of y steps"
where x and y must be supplied programmatically at runtime.

Given that we can't rely on the order of words in other languages, I can't
localize just the "of" and "steps" seperately, unless I want to come up
with a really odd looking translation in some languages. :-)

My current plan is to make the localized string contain %x and %y which
should be replaced with the relevant data.  Obviously I can code this up
each time, and I can even end up doing it generically.

But has it been done before, and can I save a little time?  Or is this
something I can contribute to the community once it's done?

Thanks,

Craig



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