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use Config;
use utf8::all if $Config{osname} eq 'Linux'; # perl adamantly ignores 
+the condition

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You can’t use Perl’s usual if here, you must use the pragma if, which has a different syntax:

use Config;
use if $Config{osname} eq 'Linux', 'utf8::all';

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Note also that the Config module isn’t needed for this test. Either $ENV{OS} or $^O will give you the information you need.

Update 1: Struck out $ENV{OS}, thanks to afoken, below.

Update 2: Changed utf8::all to 'utf8::all' (i.e., added quotes) to avoid a syntax error when the condition fails.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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