Hello Dear Monks,

I have a problem with 'accent-characters' (èéà...) when creating a pdf with PDF::EasyPDF 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $string = "pépé";

use PDF::EasyPDF;
my $pdf = PDF::EasyPDF->new({file=>"test.pdf",x=>mm(210),y=>mm(297)});

$pdf->text(mm(20),mm(297-20), $string )
$pdf->close;

print $string

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in the pdf the string becomes 'pépé '

I tried to add things like : 


use utf8;
use open ':std' => ':utf8';
utf8::encode($string);

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with no luck

As this encoding stuff is not really clear in my mind I don't know where to search

I'm on linux, LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8

Any hint welcome

Have a nice day

"There is only one good, namely knowledge, and only one evil, namely ignorance." Socrates

In reply to ( PDF::EasyPDF ) encoding problem by lepetitalbert

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