From a quick look at the PDF::EasyPDF source, I'd say it doesn't have any support for unicode at all...

So, try to Encode::encode() your $string in IsoLatin1 (aka "iso-8859-1") before you pass it to the ->text() method.  Also, you'd need use utf8; if you have literal strings in your source code (like in your example) and are using a Unicode editor (which I suppose you are, otherwise you wouldn't be getting the results you're currently seeing...). This is required to tell Perl that the source is in UTF-8.

(Of course this approach would only work for characters that are actually encodable in IsoLatin1, like "é"...)

In reply to Re: ( PDF::EasyPDF ) encoding problem by almut
in thread ( PDF::EasyPDF ) encoding problem by lepetitalbert

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