licit that a missing value <code>NA</code> is represented by only three null bytes and an empty character string <code>""</code> is represented by an end-of-line character and a null byte.)</p></li>
<li><p>Convert to Unicode bit encoding. For UNF versions &lt; 4.1, use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-32BE">UTF-32BE</a>. For UNF versions &gt;= 4.1, use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8">UTF-8</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Concatenate all values into a single byte sequence. Compute a hash on the re