I found a simple solution myself which I reproduce here in case anyone else wants to achieve something similar.
First I add the Zapf Dingbats font with
pdf.set_font(“ZapfDingbats”, style=“”, size=8)
then I can print a tick with
pdf.text(21 + 8 * dictnum, ypos+16, chr(52))
or a cross with
pdf.text(21 + 8 * dictnum, ypos+16, chr(54))
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