UTF-8 String to PDF using PDF::Writer

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Hi

I just can't seem to figure this out.

I know that PDF doesn't support UTF-8 so I'm trying to use Iconv to convert the string from UTF-8 to MacRoman (or anything that will work). This doesn't seem to be working though. Is there a better/correct way to do this? The string is stored as UTF-8 in MySQL and displays properly on the web (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>).

The main problem seems to be smart quotes do not come across I get strange symbols, everything else seems to work.

My latest attempt.

def create_pdf     # creates a PDF version of an authors listing. Pass a listing object as the methods parameter. AJ

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Use substitution maps. Look in the source for the manual (it's documented in the manual, but it's not as clear as I'd like) and see where I do substitutions for the copyright character. It's in the first 10k or so of source, and it's pretty clear.

You can do any substitution you'd like at all.

-austin