| SYNOPSIS |
| bytes to_bytes(string unicode, string encoding) |
| bytes to_bytes(int* characters, string encoding) |
| bytes to_bytes(bytes bytesequence) |
| bytes to_bytes(int* bytes) |
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| DESCRIPTION |
| The first argument is converted to a byte sequence. |
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| The first two variants convert a unicode string resp. a sequence |
| of unicode characters to a byte sequence that represents |
| the encoded string. The second argument denotes the name of |
| the encoding to use. |
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| The third variant just returns the argument. |
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| The fourth variant converts an array of bytes to a byte string. |
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| HISTORY |
| Introduced in LDMud 3.6.0. |
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| SEE ALSO |
| to_text(E), to_string(E), to_array(E) |