Any way to convert a regular string in ActionScript 3 to a ByteArray of Latin-1 Character Codes?

Question

I am having no problem converting a string to a byteArray of UTF-16 encoded characters, but the application I am trying to communicate with (written in Erlang) only understands Latin-1 encoding. Is there any way of producing a byteArray full of Latin-1 character codes from a string within Actionscript 3?

Solution

byteArray.writeMultiByte(string, "iso-8859-1");

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/utils/ByteArray.html#writeMultiByte()

Comments

[Mike Keen]

Yeah, I thought that would do the trick as well, but it actually manages to write the characters themselves instead of the character values. I may be overlooking something obvious.

[aaaidan]

Can you explain what the difference between the "characters themselves" and "character values" is?