First you need to download the package "icu4j.jar" which contains the unicode parser:
http://www.icu-project.org/download /
Then start up UIM using the following command line call:
java -cp uimodeler.jar;icu4j.jar -Dunicode=yes com.ibm.cv.text.EAdvisor
This should cause it to parse the text input as UNICODE instead of ASCII.
--Scott Spangler