I am using XML::Simple to parse some utf8 xml files. However, utf8 files with BOM cause it to crash and burn with the following error:

Wide character in subroutine entry at C:/Perl/lib/Encode.pm line 174.

The offending code is:

use XML::Simple;
local $XML::Simple::PREFERRED_PARSER = 'XML::Parser';
$xml->XMLin($file,ForceArray => ['map'], KeyAttr =>{},);

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The error does NOT occur with utf8 files that have no BOM. Seems bazaar, and I have no idea what to do. Any suggestions?

Update:

It has to be the way I'm using it. Here's more context for the code I posted earlier:

In ETTX.pm:

package ETTX;
use strict;
use XML::Simple;
local $XML::Simple::PREFERRED_PARSER = 'XML::Parser';
use XML::SemanticDiff;

sub new(){#scalar file name
    my $class = shift;
    my $self = 
        {
            ettxFile => '',
            ettx => {},
        };
    bless $self, $class;
    load($self,shift) if @_ ==1;
    return $self;
};

sub load(){#scalar file name
    my ($self, $ettxFile) = @_;
    print "loading $ettxFile";
    open(my $fh, '<', $ettxFile);
    binmode($fh);
    my $xml = XML::Simple->new();
    $self->{ettx} = 
        $xml->XMLin($fh, 
            ForceArray => ['map'], KeyAttr => {}, 
        )
    ->{table};
    $self->{ettxFile} = $ettxFile;
    # print Dumper($self);
    1;
}

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The code above was changed to to use the binmode() thing, but still fails just the same.

Called like so:

use lib 'C:\Texts\Programs';    #wherever ETTX.pm is
use ETTX;
my $ettxFile = 'someXMLfile.ettx';
my $ettx->load($ettxFile);

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And here's a sample xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ettx ver="2">
  <table id="{4fa6cd7a-f7b6-416d-8f59-3acc0eab9bdb}" name="TestFile">
    <level type="V">
      <map sync="Title" src="someText"/>
      <map sync="Title Page" src="someText"/>
    </level>
  </table>
</ettx>

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In reply to Encode throws "Wide character in subroutine entry" when using XML::Simple by nglenn

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