dear perlmonks---

I need to put an alpha (and some other greek characters) into a powerpoint presentation. Windows XP. Powerpoint is 2007. perl is Strawberry 5.12.3. almost everything was just installed fairly recently, so there should be few legacy issues.

someone else told me this same code produces chinese character, someone else reported it working---I am just exasperated. How do I reliably get some basic Greek characters into my PowerPoint document? 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings FATAL => qw{ uninitialized };  ## should be in -w!!!

use utf8;

use Win32::PowerPoint;
my $ppt = Win32::PowerPoint->new;
$ppt->new_presentation();
my $slide = $ppt->new_slide();  ## $slide is not used
$ppt->add_text("Please print \x{03B1}");
$ppt->save_presentation('alpha.ppt');
$ppt->close_presentation();

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In reply to Unicode characters in Win32::Powerpoint by iaw4

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