var
            id: uint64
            inp = @["1", "user", "email"]

        #allocate memory for a cstring, the size of the string being copied
        var s1:cstring = cast[cstring] (alloc0((inp[1].len + 1) * sizeof(char)))


        s1 = inp[1]
        echo $s1
        #Works!

        copyMem(cast[pointer](addr s1), addr inp[1], sizeof(s1))
        echo $s1
        #Unicode char?