I just added a new AJAX utility to our suite of AJAX tools and this one can be used to convert a series of chars to bytes or a series of bytes to chars. You can try it here.
The idea for this app was born out of the work I was doing on the upcoming high-performance Redis Java Client. Because Redis uses a binary-safe protocol, I was finding myself constantly converting arrays of chars to bytes and visa versa directly from the Eclipse Java debugger.
I wrote this web app so I could just past in entire array values from the debugger and see what they really contained. Hope this helps anyone else out there doing the same type of stuff.
As with all our AJAX util apps, it is free and logs/stores nothing. All the source code is actually available on GitHub if you want to look through it or download it.
