Taking this comment and making it an idea on its own.
Numeric controls can be configured to display their value today as SI Notation, decimal, octal, hex or binary by enabling Visible Items >> Radix and then setting the radix ring to the desired value.
This proposal is to add a new option to the ring for unsigned integer types: ASCII. This would cause an integer to be displayed as a series of characters as each byte of the integer is interpreted on the standard ASCII table.
(If in the future LV improves support for unicode string handling, adding a radix mode for "Unicode" might also be good, though at that point you'd have to specify an decoding to use for the individual control)
Note that adding this option to the Radix ring would really invalidate calling it "radix". Having "SI Notation" in the ring is already stretching the definition, but this would push it over the edge, so we might want to call it "Display format" or something like that. Or perhaps there's an alternative way of specifying this display mode that would be better (everyone, put your suggestions in comments below), but the main thrust of the idea is to let a number be shown using its character interpretation.
