GNU bug report logs - #51292
27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining characters

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 27.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 51292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51292: 27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining
 characters
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 22:50:15 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Emacs has string-reverse, obsolete since 25.1.  Perhaps we should
> reintroduce it and use the definition from s?

Or...  well, that might break some people's code, so let's not do that.

And I'm not quite sure that such a function really makes sense.  How
often do you reverse a string for display purposes, anyway?

But it might make sense to add function to tokenize a string into
grapheme clusters -- I can see that being useful.  Then the caller can
chop and reverse the list of clusters as they wish.

`string-tokenize-graphemes'?

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