in reply to What Voodoo Encoding does RTF use for > ASCII Chars?

Did you have a look at RTF::Writer? It has an "escape" function.

use Modern::Perl;
use utf8;
use RTF::Writer qw/rtfesc/;

my $escaped = rtfesc('aà eé iî oö uü');
say $escaped;

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Output:
a\'e0 e\'e9 i\'ee o\'f6 u\'fc

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