Encoding Fonts from InDesign to UTF-8 for PDF SEO

I have the topic that I export documents out of InDesign CS3 into a PDF file. Does anybody know how to adjust the font encoding to UTF-8.
Now I always get the ANSI coding in each PDF. The result is that the PDFs can't be accessed and indexed by the search engine spiders.
Who is able to help me?
Thanks ahead.
Thomas

How do you find the UTF encoding?
I took an inDesign-created PDF and saved as PDFXML. When I unzipped it, the container file looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<container version="1.0" xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:container">
<relationships xmlns:pdf="http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/2006">
<relationship type="metadata" target="$path.xmp"/>
<relationship type="pdf:annotation" target="$path.ann"/>
</relationships>
</container>
Then I resaved the file as PDF and it grew from 4.1 to 4.3 MB. I've no idea if saving as xml changed the encoding, but I'd be curious to find out.

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