How to set encoding in PHP FPDI library

How to set UTF-8 encoding in php library named FPDI? Here's the library: https://www.setasign.com/products/fpdi/manual/

Code:

$pdf = new Fpdi();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->setSourceFile('PdfDocument.pdf');
$tplIdx = $pdf->importPage(1);

$pdf->useTemplate($tplIdx, 10, 10, 100);

$pdf->SetFont('Helvetica');
$pdf->SetTextColor(255, 0, 0);
$pdf->SetXY(30, 30);
$pdf->Write(0, 'Zażółcić gęślą jaźń');

$pdf->Output();

[DECISION]

First: I had to add a new font with the correct letters

$pdf->AddFont('DejaVu','','DejaVuSansCondensed.php');
$pdf->SetFont('DejaVu', '', 10, '', false);

SECOND: Regarding the FPDF library, which is a user of FPDI: Encodings are possible there:

cp1250 (Central Europe)
cp1251 (Cyrillic)
cp1252 (Western Europe)
cp1253 (Greek)
cp1254 (Turkish)
cp1255 (Hebrew)
cp1257 (Baltic)
cp1258 (Vietnamese)
cp874 (Thai)
ISO-8859-1 (Western Europe)
ISO-8859-2 (Central Europe)
ISO-8859-4 (Baltic)
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic)
ISO-8859-7 (Greek)
ISO-8859-9 (Turkish)
ISO-8859-11 (Thai)
ISO-8859-15 (Western Europe)
ISO-8859-16 (Central Europe)
KOI8-R (Russian)
KOI8-U (Ukrainian)

The line I sent to pdf was in UTF-8 (I checked it with a function mb_detect_encoding) and it was necessary to convert to cp1250.

$str = iconv('UTF-8', 'cp1250', 'zazółcić gęślą jaźń');

OTHER SOLUTION try using:

$pdf->SetFont('freeserif', '', 14, '', true);
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