transcodeToBlob() Operation

set aBlob = aString.transcodeToBlob(charset)
set aBlob = transcodeToBlob(LITERAL, charset)

Transcodes internal strings (always UTF-8 encoded) into a blob containing the characters of the current string encoded in a given character set.

aString

Can be any variable or object attribute having the type String.  

charset

Can be any variable or object attribute having the type String and denoting a valid character set (e.g. UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, etc.). A list of supported character sets can be found on Charset Definitions.

LITERAL

A string literal to be transcoded.

This example transforms a string into a blob that contains ISO-8859-1 encoded characters.

set aBlob = aString.transcodeToBlob("ISO-8859-1");