I'm trying to understand the following snippet of code, which doesn't seem to be working for me. 
eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec env LANG=C $0 ${1+"$@"}' 
  if $ENV{"LANG"} != "C";

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What's happening in each eval? Here's what it looks like to me. Please correct me...
  1. It's just sticking a 0 on the end of the end of the exit status for the last child process and exiting. But there is no last child process.
  2. Set LANG=C then execute the current script again with an argument that is somehow made from a 1 and the code for the syntax error from the first eval
I'm very confused. This is a work-around for a bug with HP OfficeJet printer support on RedHat Linux. Since it's not working I was thinking of using this adaptation from another thread which helped me solve another, unrelated problem... 
BEGIN {
    unless ( $ENV{LANG} eq "C" ) {
        $ENV{LANG} = "C";
        exec 'env',$0,@ARGV;
    }
}

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I will be posting a question of this nature in their mailing list, too. But the Monks are much better :) Thank you, 
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