Mario Weilguni wrote:
>> (Aside: presumably we could walk thru the string destructively,
>> in-place, swapping bytes; I think that would be theoretically
>> quickest...)
>>
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> Hmmm... I guess it will not work für UTF-8 or any other multibyte charset
>
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Yes, quite.
Perl's reverse might work with UTF8 - I've never tried.
cheers
andrew