note 50717 deleted from function.ord by danbrown

Note Submitter: skissane at gmail dot com ---- Contrary to what jacobfri says below, ord does not use any particular character encoding. It simply converts bytes from a string type to the corresponding integer. These bytes could be characters in ASCII, or some other 7/8-bit code (e.g. ISO-8859-1), or bytes making up characters in some multibyte code (e.g. UTF-8). It all depends on what character encoding your application is using.