Example font subset with non-unicode output

Hi,
I am searching for an example to use a TTF Font as font subset in PDF but without UTF16 encoding.
Is this even possible?
Something similar to
7 0 obj
<</Type /Font /Subtype /Type0 /BaseFont /AAAAAD+Arial/Encoding /Identity-H /DescendantFonts [9 0 R] /ToUnicode 8 0 R >>
9 0 obj
<</Type /Font /Subtype /CIDFontType2 /BaseFont /AAAAAD+Arial /CIDSystemInfo << /Registry (Adobe) /Ordering (Identity) /Supplement 0 >> /FontDescriptor 11 0 R /W [...
But how does the rest should look like?
Thank you in advanced

No, this is proceeding from wrong assumptions.
For all single byte fonts, EVERY PDF contruction deals with 256 values, range 0 to 255.
Let's look at what you say. You mention two Unicode values, and you continue to think that Unicode has some importance or meaning in PDF. No, it doesn't. Perhaps your characters are U+0021 and U+FEFC but the PDF does not care, and nor should you (when writing the PDF). I emphasise: if you are thinking "I will put this Unicode value somewhere in the PDF" and you are dealing with page streams/fonts, you are almost certainly not following the spec.
For a single byte font the mapping from the arbitrary codes in the PDF to the internal font structures has one and only one variable: the Encoding value. The Encoding value, if present (and the situations in which it can be omitted are specific and exact), is a shorthand representation for something which will always be an array of 256 names.
Since TrueType fonts don't contain names, the interpretation of this is complicated for embedded TrueType, and you must take care to follow exactly what the spec says. Other things MAY SOMETIMES WORK without being valid, but will probably fail in different software, so stick to the spec exactly.
There is no substitute for endless, deep and repetitive study of the PDF Reference. It will help if you can phrase your future questions in terms of "what does it mean in the specification when it says...". That will help keep you focussed. I have been working with the PDF specification for many, many years and I have found that whenever I assume anything, I am almost always wrong. Read the spec first, second and last.
FInally, don't be discouraged if you find this hard. Font embedding IS one of the very hardest things to master about PDFs, easily adding an order of magnitude of complexity to any project.

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