As I'm now on my laptop with access to the two simple programs; for text output:
import encodings
var hello1 = convert("Hellø, wørld!", "850", "UTF-8")
# Doesn't work - seems to think current codepage is utf8.
var hello2 = convert("Hellø, wørld!", getCurrentEncoding(), "UTF-8")
# Outputs correct text:
echo hello1
# Outputs corrupted text:
echo hello2
(And simply outputting an unconverted string fails, like hello2 does).
As for the linking problem I had, the main issue is that it seems to be harder than it probably should, to get started with the GUI-programming with nim on windows. The following code works, provided one manually obtains sdl2.dll (and sdl2.lib for static linking) - however, even with static linking flags (no errors), the resulting exe still depends on the presence of sdl2.dll:
import nimx.window
import nimx.text_field
import nimx.system_logger
proc startApp() =
var window = newWindow(newRect(40, 40, 800, 600))
let label = newLabel(newRect(20, 20, 150, 20))
label.text = "Hellø, wørld!"
window.addSubview(label)
runApplication:
startApp()
With sdl2.dll (and .lib) in the same folder both of these work:
nim --threads:on --dynlibOverride:SDL2 --passL:SDL2.lib c -r win.nim
nim --threads:on c -r win.nim
but both fail without sdl2.dll present (ie: the "statically" linked exe still depends on dynamically loading sdl2.dll).
And there's so far no easy way of getting a "supported" sdl2.dll to go with the nim compiler - as far as I can tell, neither "nimble install sdl2" or "nimble install nimx" provide a way to get the sdl2.dll and/or C source code to compile it.
But perhaps managing DLLs and such is considered to be out-of-scope for nimble/nim package manager for now.