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How to reverse a (Unicode) string.

You have written some Perl scripts already, and when somebody asks you how to reverse a string, you'll answer: "That's easy, just call reverse in scalar context".
And of course, you're right - if you're only considering ASCII chars.
But suppose you have an UTF-8 environment: read more.

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