Lua:wideStringToByteTable

function wideStringToByteTable(String) : table

Converts a string is encoded using a widechar formatting to a byte table.

Examples

 local bt = wideStringToByteTable('player.weapons.rifle')
 bt[#bt + 1] = 0
 bt[#bt + 1] = 0
 writeBytes('00123ABC', bt)

Code:

 local bt = wideStringToByteTable('test')
 for i, v in ipairs(bt) do
   print(i - 1, string.format('%02X', v))
 end

Output: