diff --git a/doc/gmsl.html b/doc/gmsl.html
index 540d51e9..822717b7 100644
--- a/doc/gmsl.html
+++ b/doc/gmsl.html
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ include the GMSL in your Makefile do<br>
 you have the right version of <span style="font-family: monospace;">gmsl</span>
 use the <span style="font-family: monospace;">gmsl_compatible</span>
 function (see
-below). The current version is <span style="font-family: monospace;">1 1 5</span>.<br>
+below). The current version is <span style="font-family: monospace;">1 1 6</span>.<br>
 <br>
 The GMSL package also includes a test suite for GMSL.&nbsp; Just run <span style="font-family: monospace;">make -f gmsl-tests</span>.<br>
 <h2>Logical Operators</h2>GMSL has boolean $(true) (a non-empty string)
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ Returns:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The sequence [arg1 arg2] if arg1 >= arg2 or [arg2 arg1
 <hr><b>dec2hex, dec2bin, dec2oct</b><br>
 <br>
 <span style="font-family: monospace;">Arguments: 1: An integer<br>
-Returns&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The decimal argument converted to hexadecimal, binary or<br>
+Returns:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The decimal argument converted to hexadecimal, binary or octal<br>
 </span>
 <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><span style="font-family: monospace;"></span>
 <h2>Associative Arrays</h2>
diff --git a/ext/__gmsl b/ext/__gmsl
index b2a6016c..22e56dcf 100644
--- a/ext/__gmsl
+++ b/ext/__gmsl
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 # This is the GNU Make Standard Library version number as a list with
 # three items: major, minor, revision
 
-gmsl_version := 1 1 5
+gmsl_version := 1 1 6
 
 __gmsl_name := GNU Make Standard Library
 
@@ -515,7 +515,8 @@ int_decode = $(__gmsl_tr1)$(words $1)
 # Returns:   Returns the integer encoded as a string of x's
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 __int_encode = $(if $1,$(if $(call seq,$(words $(wordlist 1,$1,$2)),$1),$(wordlist 1,$1,$2),$(call __int_encode,$1,$(if $2,$2 $2,x))))
-int_encode = $(__gmsl_tr1)$(call __int_encode,$1)
+__strip_leading_zero = $(if $1,$(if $(call seq,$(patsubst 0%,%,$1),$1),$1,$(call __strip_leading_zero,$(patsubst 0%,%,$1))),0)
+int_encode = $(__gmsl_tr1)$(call __int_encode,$(call __strip_leading_zero,$1))
 
 # The arithmetic library functions come in two forms: one form of each
 # function takes integers as arguments and the other form takes the