string to Hexadecimal

[pink]

I need to be able to convert a short string into its hexadecimal
eg converting "pink" to "70696e6b"

now, I've been using the following, but it runs into problems when I have non-English characters like letters with accent marks

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function stringToHex pUsername
   repeat for each char X in pUsername
      put charToNum(X) into tDecNum
      put baseConvert(tDecNum,10,16) after tHexNum
   end repeat
   return tHexNum
end stringToHex 

any suggestions on how to improve?

background: I am using a module in CouchDB that automatically creates and configures a new database for every new user that signs up. The username created is converted to Hex, and then the database is named "user-" and the hex result. So in order to access the database, when the user logins, I need to be able to accurately create the database name.

[FourthWorld]

I think the binaryDecode function may be what you're looking for.

[pink]

I tried using binaryDecode but couldn't get a response that worked

for example:
binaryDecode("h","b",theHex) returns "1"

I'm sure I'm missing something in this somewhere, but I keep trying different options

[FourthWorld]

The return value of the function is the number of converted types. In your example "theHex" will contain the converted value.

Also, "h" by itself will convert only one byte; try "h*" to convert all bytes in the second argument.

[pink]

Thanks. "H*" (capital) was what I needed. So far so good.

binaryDecode("H*",theString,theHex)