final ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

        for (final String dialect : this.dialects) {
            bos.write(0x02);
            try {
                bos.write(Strings.getASCIIBytes(dialect));
            } catch (final IOException e) {
                throw new RuntimeCIFSException(e);
            }
            bos.write(0x0);
        }

    }

    /**
     * Encodes a string into ASCII bytes.
     *
     * @param str the string to encode
     * @return the string as bytes (ASCII)
     */
    public static byte[] getASCIIBytes(final String str) {
        return getBytes(str, ASCII_ENCODING);
    }

    /**
     * Encodes a string into bytes using the OEM encoding from the configuration.
     *
     * @param str the string to encode