Contents in pdf reader use a "greeklish" display when writing greek

Question

I am creating a greek document using package babel. The main problem is that the contents the pdf viewer creates are not displayed in greek, but in "greeklish".

Okular

okular

Adobe Reader

adobe reader

At first I thought that it was Okular's issue but I get the same behaviour on adobe reader and adobe acrobat, so I don't think that has to do with the reader.

My TeXLive version is TeX 3.14159265 and I am using pdfLatex.

A simple code is

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{book}

\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
%\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc}
\usepackage{kerkis}
\usepackage[pdfencoding=auto]{hyperref}
%\usepackage[unicode]{hyperref}
\usepackage{bookmark}

\begin{document}
 \tableofcontents
 \chapter{Περίληψη}
%  \begin{otherlanguage}{greek}
% \addchap{\texorpdfstring{Per'ilhyh}{Περίληψη}}
% Per'ilhyh
% \end{otherlanguage}
  \section{Πρώτη Ενότητα}
  \section{Δεύτερη Ενότητα}
 \chapter{Δεύτερο Κεφάλαιο}
  \section{Πρώτη Ενότητα}
  \section{Δεύτερη Ενότητα}
 \chapter{Τρίτο Κεφάλαιο}
  \section{Πρώτη Ενότητα}
  \section{Δεύτερη Ενότητα}
\end{document}

I've tried to use options unicode or pdfencoding=auto to the hyperref package, but without any luck. I've also changed the encoding from iso-8859-7 to utf8 but I get an error

! Argument of \UTFviii@three@octets has an extra }. <inserted text> \par l.13 \chapter{��} Runaway argument?

Any idea why is this happening and how to fix it?

I think this is a case for \chapter[\texorpdfstring{Πρώτο κεφάλαιο}{proto kefalaio}]{Πρώτο κεφάλαιο} — Johannes_B, Sep 12 '14 at 09:49
@Johannes_B : This doesn't change it. instead of having Pr'wto Kef'alaio I now have proto kefalaio while I want Πρώτο Κεφάλαιο. You are right about hyperef. I've edited my question. — Thanos, Sep 12 '14 at 09:57
Why are you insisting in using iso-8859-7 instead of UTF-8? If I use UTF-8 and \usepackage[unicode]{hyperref}, I get the right thing. — egreg, Sep 12 '14 at 10:19
@egreg It says so when doing texdoc kerkis. Someone should inform the maintainer about this. — Johannes_B, Sep 12 '14 at 10:22
I would drop kerkis.sty completely. There are other (better?) fonts out there, especially in the open type section. — Johannes_B, Sep 12 '14 at 10:25
@Johannes_B The date I get of README.html in the Kerkis suite is 2006-01-09; not particularly up-to-date. Many things have changed in Greek support since then. — egreg, Sep 12 '14 at 10:31
@egreg \ProvidesFile{kerkis.sty}[2000/02/25 v1.5 Packagekerkis.sty']` Even worse. That's why i recommended to drop its usage. — Johannes_B, Sep 12 '14 at 10:32
@egreg : eventualy using utf8 along unicode option in hyperref worked. What I was doing wrong was using another encoding in my editor! Do you think that I have to give an answer emphasizing that? — Thanos, Sep 12 '14 at 16:40
@Thanos The answer is already in the question I linked. There are surely others dealing with matching the file encoding with the option to inputenc. — egreg, Sep 12 '14 at 16:52
@egreg : The keypoint(or the new that an asnwer will add) however, is to change the editor's encoding. — Thanos, Sep 12 '14 at 17:01

Contents in pdf reader use a "greeklish" display when writing greek

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