diff --git a/src/jspdf.js b/src/jspdf.js
index 5c73920ed..39b25569c 100644
--- a/src/jspdf.js
+++ b/src/jspdf.js
@@ -3777,7 +3777,8 @@ function jsPDF(options) {
     maxWidth = options.maxWidth || 0;
 
     var lineWidths;
-    flags = {};
+    flags = Object.assign({ autoencode: true, noBOM: true }, options.flags);
+
     var wordSpacingPerLine = [];
 
     if (Object.prototype.toString.call(text) === "[object Array]") {
diff --git a/test/reference/text-encoding-flags.pdf b/test/reference/text-encoding-flags.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c7fb6a2ef
Binary files /dev/null and b/test/reference/text-encoding-flags.pdf differ
diff --git a/test/specs/text.spec.js b/test/specs/text.spec.js
index 34e6b5bfa..f5044db01 100644
--- a/test/specs/text.spec.js
+++ b/test/specs/text.spec.js
@@ -210,4 +210,24 @@ break`
     doc.text("hello", 10, 40, { charSpace: 10 });
     comparePdf(doc.output(), "letter-spacing.pdf", "text");
   });
+
+  it("should respect autoencode and noBOM flags", () => {
+    const doc = jsPDF({ floatPrecision: 2 });
+
+    doc.text("Default:", 10, 10);
+    doc.text("é'\"´`'\u2019", 150, 10);
+
+    doc.text("autoencode=false:", 10, 30);
+    doc.text("é'\"´`'\u2019", 150, 30, { flags: { autoencode: false } });
+
+    doc.text("noBOM=false:", 10, 60);
+    doc.text("é'\"´`'\u2019", 150, 60, { flags: { noBOM: false } });
+
+    doc.text("noBOM=false,autoencode=false (garbled):", 10, 90);
+    doc.text("é'\"´`'\u2019", 150, 90, {
+      flags: { autoencode: false, noBOM: false }
+    });
+
+    comparePdf(doc.output(), "text-encoding-flags.pdf", "text");
+  });
 });