ToCharacterCode
["string"]ToCharacterCode
[{"$string_1$“, ”$string_2$", ...}]ToCharacterCode["abc"]
FromCharacterCode[%]
ToCharacterCode["\[Alpha]\[Beta]\[Gamma]"]
ToCharacterCode["ä", "UTF8"]
ToCharacterCode["ä", "ISO8859-1"]
ToCharacterCode[{"ab", "c"}]
ToCharacterCode[{"ab", x}]
ListPlot[ToCharacterCode["plot this string"], Filling -> Axis]