[Python-ideas] Add Unicode-aware str.reverse() function?

[Paddy3118]

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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