( PDF::EasyPDF ) encoding problem

[lepetitalbert]

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

in the pdf the string becomes 'pépé '

I tried to add things like :

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

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