... I will be honest. That statement confuses me. At a glance, the output is what I'd expect. Consulting the UTF8 table to the side (https://www.utf8-chartable.de/) and a quick decimal to hex calculator decimal | hex | symbol 43 | 2b | + 35 | 23 | # I am honestly very uncertain how you'd get nim to comprehend a given number as an octal.