In the case that thanos1983's reply is not what you're looking for, maybe showing us some code would help us understand the situation better.

I think that you currently have code like the following:

#!perl -w
use strict;

my $hardcoded_string_in_perl     = "\x{0052}\x{0044}\x{0024}";
my $string_as_read_from_database = '\x{0052}\x{0044}\x{0024}';

 
print $hardcoded_string_in_perl;     # RDS
print $string_as_read_from_database; # \x{0052}\x{0044}\x{0024}

print_to_pdf( $hardcoded_string_in_perl ); # works and shows the corre
+ct characters in the PDF
print_to_pdf( $string_as_read_from_database ); # works and shows the c
+orrect characters in the PDF

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If that is true, you will likely just need to convert the backslashed escape sequences to Perl characters. For example using something like the following subroutine:

sub unescape {
    my( $str ) = @_;
    $str =~ s!\\x\{([0-9a-f]{4})\}!chr(hex $1)!ge;
    $str
};

print unescape('\x{0052}\x{0044}\x{0024}');

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In reply to Re: Print unicode strings to pdf by Corion
in thread Print unicode strings to pdf by Anonymous Monk

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