[Templates] 2.08 build failure on Redhat 8.0

[Mark Fowler]

On 30 Oct 2002, Simon Wilcox wrote:

> Sorry, I wasn't clear. Text::Autoformat has similar errors. I suspect it
> is something different in the underlying sprintf function. No idea how
> to go about figuring out what versions of the C libraries I have though.
> According to the redhat website, I should have glibc 2.2.93 on the
> machine. Is that where sprintf lives ?

Sounds like a perl bug to me (or rather a RedHat perl bug.)  Not sure what 
to do about this.  Send me the actual errors and I'll note them in the 
FAQ as a "known problem" and until someone comes up with a solution.

> This is an erroneous test I think. The encoding is valid, it just uses
> numbers instead of the helper names.

I've now commited the patch that allowed either named or numerical 
entities to be returned for the e-accute in the test, so everything should 
now work okay with that.

Mark.

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