This module, built as a subclass of XML::Parser, parses encoding map XML files. Included in the package is the compile_encoding script that compiles these to the binary form used by XML::Parser in order to parse scripts in the given encoding. Also included is a script that generates encoding map XML files from the type of mapping files obtained at ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS. . Several encoding maps are included in the maps subdirectory.