There is a problem with displaying counters

In the following line there should have been a <count disp> with the counter-value "5" before the point:

5. Introduction.

But I can see that the counters themselves are translated since it appears when I make a crossreference to it – after the colon: 5

I realize that the reference is translated into pure text. That is of course quite understandable since not all wordprocessors have the counter-feature.