Szathmáry László honlapja @ DEIK

Nim's chr() will only work with ASCII.

chr()
print(chr(65)) # 'A' print(chr(97)) # 'a' print(chr(8594)) # '→'	echo chr(65) # 'A' echo chr(97) # 'a' # echo chr(8594) # ERROR # Error: cannot convert 8594 to range 0..255(int)

Nim's chr() is a function that returns a char, and a char is 1 byte.

Unicode support

import std/unicode # Rune

echo Rune(65) # A

echo Rune(97) # a

echo Rune(8594) # →

A Rune is an int32 that can represent any Unicode character. echo knows how to print it.

ASCII is a subset of Unicode, so it also works with "normal" ASCII characters.