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

[Paddy3118]

Please involve those with more knowledge on the subject. Thanks.

On Saturday, 8 September 2018 13:13:05 UTC+1, Jonathan Fine wrote:
>
> Paddy wrote
>
> > 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!
>
> Excellent post and piece of work. Well done!
>
> Here's someone who might know not only how useful, but also the
> wrinkles in doing it correctly:
> <quote>
> https://www.telecom-bretagne.eu/studies/msc/professors/haralambous/
>
> Yannis Haralambous received his Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics from the
> Université de Sciences et Techniques de Lille-Flandre-Artois, Lille,
> France in 1990. He is currently working as a full-time Professor at
> Institut Mines-Telecom/Telecom Bretagne, Brest, in the Computer
> Science Department. His research areas include digital typography and
> representation of text, electronic documents, internationalization of
> documents, character encodings and the preservation of the cultural
> heritage of the book in the digital era. He is the author of Fonts &
> Encodings, to be published by O'Reilly in 2007 (French version :
> Fontes & codages, O'Reilly France, 2003).
> </quote>
>
> I know Yannis, so could approach him on behalf of this list.
>
> --
> Jonathan
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