diff --git a/gramps2/ChangeLog b/gramps2/ChangeLog
index ce761736c..560b0ae1e 100644
--- a/gramps2/ChangeLog
+++ b/gramps2/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 2005-02-22 Alex Roitman  <shura@alex.neuro.umn.edu>
 	* configure.in: Bump up the version.
+	* src/docgen/PdfDoc.py (write_note): Attempt latin1 encoding.
 
 2005-02-21  Don Allingham  <dallingham@users.sourceforge.net>
 	* Release: Version 1.1.90 "Successful encyclopedia salesman" released.
diff --git a/gramps2/src/docgen/PdfDoc.py b/gramps2/src/docgen/PdfDoc.py
index 6db367115..6ee923d11 100644
--- a/gramps2/src/docgen/PdfDoc.py
+++ b/gramps2/src/docgen/PdfDoc.py
@@ -342,6 +342,7 @@ class PdfDoc(BaseDoc.BaseDoc):
             self.story.append(Spacer(1,0.5*cm))
 
     def write_note(self,text,format,style_name):
+        text = enc(text)
         current_para = self.pdfstyles[style_name]
         self.my_para = self.style_list[style_name]
         self.super = "<font size=%d><super>" % (self.my_para.get_font().get_size()-2)