This is kind of a prototype for xpdev... but it's a bit klunky.

The issue these fix is that some C libraries (Windows and GLibC)
will return 0 and leave errno unset when no digits are converted,
while other libraries (FreeBSD and musl) will set errno if no
digits are converted.  This means that even setting errno to zero
before calling, then checking it if the return value is zero is
not enough to catch errors.

This actually led to Windows and (most) Linux systems not being able
to download the web lists because of a bug where it was converting
starting in the middle of the string rather than where the numbers
are.  It worked fine on Alpine Linux and FreeBSD though.