title: How do I convert a character into binary?
body: <p>How would you convert a given character in a string to a its corresponding binary value?   </p>
  
  <pre><code>public void send(DataFrame frame) {
      String bitString = frame.toString();
          for (int a = 0; a &lt; bitString.length(); a++) {
              char c = bitString.charAt(a);
              ????
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>where frame is defined to be a byte array (as byte [] in the DataFrame class</p>