How do I get the byte values of a string in PHP?

Question

Say I have a string in php, that prints out to a text file like this:

nÖ§9q1Fª£

How do I get the byte codes of this to my text file rather than the funky asc

Answer 1

Ord() does the trick with an ASCII-charset. If you, however, meddle with multibyte strings (like UTF-8), you're out of luck, and need to hack it yourself.