in reply to PDF::Template and character encodings
qwurx [shmem] ~ > xlsfonts | grep -i helvetica | grep 8859 -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--10-100-75-75-p-60-iso8859-1 -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--10-100-75-75-p-60-iso8859-15 -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--10-100-75-75-p-60-iso8859-2 ...
Did you try with iso8859-1?
--shmem
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