How to reverse a Unicode string

Question

It was hinted in a comment to an answer to this question that PHP can not reverse Unicode strings.

As for Unicode, it works in PHP because most app

Answer 1

Another method:

function mb_strrev($str, $enc = null) {
    if(is_null($enc)) $enc = mb_internal_encoding();
    $str = mb_convert_encoding($str, 'UTF-16BE', $enc);
    return mb_convert_encoding(strrev($str), $enc, 'UTF-16LE');
}