--- /dev/null
+# $Id: UnicodeExt.pm,v 1.1 2002-01-30 17:35:21 matt Exp $
+
+package XML::SAX::PurePerl;
+use strict;
+
+no warnings 'utf8';
+
+sub chr_ref {
+ return chr(shift);
+}
+
+if ($] >= 5.007002) {
+ require Encode;
+
+ Encode::define_alias( "UTF-16" => "UCS-2" );
+ Encode::define_alias( "UTF-16BE" => "UCS-2" );
+ Encode::define_alias( "UTF-16LE" => "ucs-2le" );
+ Encode::define_alias( "UTF16LE" => "ucs-2le" );
+}
+
+1;
+