Hi Gerard, The fix is available as a pull request. May I ask you to check if it solves the issue?
Here are the steps to build it in the /tmp/tlf directory: /tmp$ git clone https://github.com/zcsahok/tlf --branch fix_countrylist_parsing /tmp$ cd tlf /tmp/tlf$ autoreconf --install --force /tmp/tlf$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share /tmp/tlf$ make 73, Zoli