I'm trying to print a 'pound' symbol (the UK currency, not a # or
anything else that may get called pound) to a PDF document in
PDF::Reuse. I've a string containing the symbol in a variable, and am
printing it thus:
$txt = "The cash value is £"; # not sure how that'll appear on usenet
prText($x, $y, $txt) ;
The output I'm seeing is a capitalised A with a caret followed by the
pound symbol. I'm not sure how to proceed. Looking at UTF8, I can find
the code for the character I want, but, looking at documentation for the
utf8 module I see: "Do not use this pragma for anything else than
telling Perl that your script is written in UTF-8" ... which it isn't, I
just want to print one symbol.
Any suggestions how I might move forward with this? Thank you for any
help you can give.
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