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awk ProgramsOnce a program's translatable strings have been marked, they must
be extracted to create the initial .po file.
As part of translation, it is often helpful to rearrange the order
in which arguments to printf are output.
gawk's --gen-po command-line option extracts
the messages and is discussed next.
After that, printf's ability to
rearrange the order for printf arguments at runtime
is covered.
printf arguments.
awk-level portability issues.