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PDF::Reuse can do Unicode (Score:2)
The maintainer of PDF::Reuse [cpan.org] accepted my patch to add this functionality earlier this year.
It's my understanding that if you stick to the built-in PDF fonts you're stuck with characters in the Latin-1 range (roughly speaking). You have to use embedded fonts to get at Unicode characters outside that range.
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That's correct. Appendix D of the PDF Reference explicitly lists the minimum glyphs that must be supported in the 14 standard fonts.
That said, I would not be surprised if non-Latin-1 Unicode characters worked fine in one of the basic fonts on a recent mainstream OS. To get Unicode in strings, you may need to employ to the hex notation (angle brackets).