Re^3: Perl version dependent code (updated)

[hippo]

my $c = "ж";

That's an HTML entity and consists of 7 separate characters. If you typed it like this then hopefully it becomes obvious why it doesn't match against "Ж" which is an entirely different string, folding notwithstanding.

OTOH, if you didn't type it like this but instead used a unicode literal string such as

my $c = "ж";

then your code is missing the absolutely necessary use utf8; pragma in order to decode this character properly.

(Edited for typo)

[Aldebaran]

Indeed...

$ ./1.version.pl 
a is 5.026001
b is v5.26.1
version is v5
version is v5.26.1
c is ж
d is Ж
expressions matched
$ cat 1.version.pl 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use 5.011;
use Path::Tiny;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
use if $] ge '5.016', feature => 'fc';
use if $] lt '5.016', 'Unicode::CaseFold' => 'fc';
use utf8;
use open OUT => ':encoding(UTF-8)', ':std';

my $a = $];
say "a is $a";

my $b = $^V;
say "b is $b";

printf "version is v%d\n", $a;  # Perl's version
printf "version is v%vd\n", $b;  # Perl's version

my $c = "ж";
say "c is $c";

my $d = "Ж";
say "d is $d";

if (fc($c) eq fc($d)){
say "expressions matched";

} else {
    say "did not match";
}
__END__ 
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