French accents in pdf output gives funny characters

Hi All,
One of our customer wants to view the french accents in the pdf ouptut but its showing some junk characters instead. For eg. Montréal is output as MontrÃ©al. He can see the correct output in the text but not in the pdf and the postscript format. Display is properly set,.
Please advice me on the same,
Refer SR 5840069.993
Thanks and Regards,
Ajay

Hi,
Try using oracle built-in CONVERT function.
Thanks & Regards,
Lakshmi Kalyan Vara Prasad.

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