chr in Perl returns the character represented by that NUMBER in the character set.
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
binmode(STDOUT, 'utf8'); # To avoide the 'Wide character in say' warning.
say chr(65); # A
say chr(1488); # א (Hebrew Aleph)
say chr(1634); # ٢ (Arabic 2)
say chr(197); # Å
say chr(195); # Ã
say chr(215); # ×
say chr(217); # Ù
See also the ord function that does the opposite.
