I am sure this has been asked before, but a Google search and a Super Search here aren't turning up much useful.

I have a data provider who is sending me XML with the following at the top: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UNICODE"?>

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And, sure enough, if I look at this in certain editors such as Eclipse, there are Kanji characters in there.

When I try parsing this with XML::libXML, I get the following error: 

text_file.xml:1: parser error : Unsupported encoding UNICODE
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UNICODE"?>

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I get a similar error from XML::Simple, which is no surprised, I suppose.

I understand that expat has builtin encoding for UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, UTF-16, and US-ASCII. So, can anyone shed some light on how I can parse this unicode XML?

If it matters, I'm running ActiveState 5.8.3 on WinXP. Any bit of assistance is appreciated.

Regards, SheridanCat

In reply to Unicode XML Parsing Problem by SheridanCat

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