I am trying to parse an XML file with XML simple. The XML file has some attributes that include emdashes. Here is the xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
  <table id="{4fa6cd7a-f7b6-416d-8f59-3acc0eab9bdb}">
    <level type="b">
      <map abrv="JS—M"/>
      <map abrv="JS—K"/>
    </level>
</ettx>
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Here is the code to show the error:

#!/usr/bin/perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;
my $xml = XML::Simple->new();
my $fileName = 'C:\Users\nate\Desktop\testXML.txt';
my $tree = 
    {
        table => {}
    
    };
$tree->{table} = 
        $xml->XMLin($fileName, 
            ForceArray => ['map'], KeyAttr => []
        )
    ->{table};
print Dumper($tree->{table});
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Just change the file path to test it. The error produced when I run it is: Cannot decode string with wide characters at C:/Perl/lib/Encode.pm line 174.

What really annoys me is that there is a much bigger file that has the emdash in some attributes and it parses fine until I remove a certain number of lines, after which it produces the above error. Any suggestions?

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