Since upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04, Perl seems to behave differently.

I've got a script that loads a module, a module where I define the version as our $VERSION = 1.23. Now, when I call print with the $Some::Module::VERSION variable, or when I use it in a concatenation, I get a number as it would be correct for a floating point number within my locale, with a comma - I'm on a German Ubuntu here. But I'd like to have the US dot format...

To illustrate it, I've written this small test script. But: This example script does not work. It prints "1.23" (and, as bonus, tought me that there's a difference between declaring packages in one script and having them loaded as modules. printer() prints "This is ."). 

#!perl

my $test = 1.23;
print "test: $test \n";

print My::Test::Print::printer() ."\n";

package My::Test;

our $VERSION = 1.11;

package My::Test::Print;

sub printer {
        print "This is ". $My::Test::VERSION ."\n";
}

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Anyone here who knows what's going on?
I'm using Perl v5.18.2.

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