Coding of FDF files

Hi there,
I have a problem regarding the coding of FDF files. Here's what I'm doing: I copy and paste text from Word into a HTML Form in Firefox. Firefox encodes special chars as &#xyz; Now I generate a fdf file from the form fields. In these files, the Firefox HTML-Encoded special chars are coded as above and therefore printed exactly like that in the latter PDF file.
Now I started to copy the Word Text directly into the PDF Form, exporting the FDF and looking at the coding of the special chars. But it neither seems to be ISO, UTF-8 nor Windows or any other well-known coding.
Can anybody help me out and tell me, which format is used for encoding of FDF files?
Thanks a lot
Michael

Maybe it matches the font's encoding as specified in the PDF. That
would make sense, because then no translation is needed on loading the
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