Facing problem in XML::parser module in PERL

HI,

I have XML file which is having values as Spanish character (UTF-8 encoding). I am using XML::parser module but my code is not able to read those characters. I did goggling but not able to find suitable solution. Anybody please help me out.

XML file having characters like: �
I am inclusing following lines in code, but it wouldn't work:
open(FOO, "$file");
$parser->parse(*FOO, ProtocolEncoding => 'UTF-8');
close(FOO);

PERL gurus pls help..

Convert them to Latin
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