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

[Paddy3118]

On Sunday, 9 September 2018 06:30:19 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 04:33:07AM -0700, Paddy3118 wrote: 
> > 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. 
>
> I wouldn't care too much about a dedicated "reverse" method that handled 
> combining characters. I think that's just a special case of iterating 
> over graphemes. If we can iterate over graphemes, then reversing because 
> trivial: 
>
> ''.join(reversed(mystring.graphemes())) 
>
> The Unicode Consortium offer an algorithm for identifying grapheme 
> clusters in text strings, and there's at least three requests on the 
> tracker (one closed, two open). 
>
> https://bugs.python.org/issue30717 
>
> https://bugs.python.org/issue18406 
>  
> https://bugs.python.org/issue12733 
>

Well that ends this idea!

Thanks Steve :-)

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