The proposal does not stop at ASCII. Any codepoint is valid provided it fits into the target type.
let ascii: Int8 = 'a' // 97
let latin1: UInt8 = 'ÿ' // 255
let utf16: UInt16 = 'Ƥ' // 420
let emoji: UInt32 = '🙂' // 128578
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