It's a POSIX feature that isn't in standard C. It's not available on
Windows. Even MinGW-w64 with __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO doesn't support
it even though it supports POSIX %'d for thousand separators.
Gettext's <libintl.h> provides overrides for printf and other functions
which do support the %2$s formats. Translations use them. But xz should
work on Windows without <libintl.h> too.