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16.3.19 Modula-2 Format Strings
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   Modula-2 format strings are defined as follows:
  1. Escape sequences are processed.  These escape sequences are
     understood: ‘\a’, ‘\b’, ‘\e’, ‘\f’, ‘\n’, ‘\r’, ‘\xHEX-DIGITS’,
     ‘\OCTAL-DIGITS’.  Other than that, a backslash is ignored.
  2. A directive consists of
        • a ‘%’ character,
        • optionally a flag character ‘-’,
        • optionally a flag character ‘0’,
        • optionally a width specification (a nonnegative integer),
        • and finally a specifier: ‘s’ that formats a string, ‘c’ that
          formats a character, ‘d’ and ‘u’, that format a
          (signed/unsigned) integer in decimal, or ‘x’, that formats an
          unsigned integer in hexadecimal.
     There is also the directive ‘%%’, that produces a single percent
     character.