I wrote a blog post <http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2009/07/case-of-disappearing-over-bar.html>nearly a decade ago on extending a Rosetta Code task example <http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Reverse_a_string>to handle the correct reversal of strings with combining characters. On checking my blog statistics today I found that it still had a readership and revisited the code <http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Reverse_a_string#Python:_Unicode_reversal> (and updated it to Python3.6)..
I found that amongst the nearly 200 languages that complete the RC task,there were a smattering of languages that correctly handled reversing strings having Unicode combining characters, including Perl 6 <http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Reverse_a_string#Perl_6> which uses flip. I would like to propose that Python add a Unicode-aware *str.reverse *method. The problem is, I'm a Brit, who only speaks English and only very rarely dips into Unicode.* I don't know how useful this would be!* Cheers, Paddy.
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