[luatex] LuaTeX file almost 2.5x bigger

[Hartmut Henkel]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 9 August 2010 Paul Isambert wrote:
>
>  > Unfortunately, the uncompressed PDF made with InDesign has text
>  > strings written with character codes, which makes it pretty painful
>  > to read.
>
> I'm wondering which character encoding is used:
>
>  (\007\033\030\f\032\013\031)
>
> It doesn't look like ASCII, ISO-8859-*, UTF-8, or UCS-2.  All these
> encodings support ASCII.  What's \007 here?

Bond --- James Bond :-)

It's octal and seems to be translated by object no. 8 to "woeful ":

007 0x07 0x77 w
033 0x1b 0x6f o
030 0x18 0x65 e
f   f    f    f
032 0x1a 0x75 u
013 0x0b 0x6c l
031 0x19 0x20 Blank

Regards, Hartmut