Any way to convert a regular string in ActionScript 3 to ByteArray latin character characters?

Question

I have no problem converting a string to byteArray encoded UTF-16 characters, but the application I'm trying to contact (written in Erlang) only understands Latin-1 encoding. Is there a way to create an Array byte with latin characters of the 1st character from a string in ActionScript 3?

Answer 1

byteArray.writeMultiByte (string, "iso-8859-1");

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/utils/ByteArray.html#writeMultiByte ()