[erlang-questions] Strings as Lists

[Christian S]

2008/2/15 Dmitrii 'Mamut' Dimandt <dmitriid@REDACTED>:
>  This is only true for ASCII text ;) Non-ASCII gets screwed up badly:
>
>  lists:reverse("text") %% gives you "txet"
>  lists:reverse("текст") %% Russian for text becomes
> [130,209,129,209,186,208,181,208,130,209] which is clearly not what I wanted
> :)

This is what you should have in your list:
1> Text = [16#442, 16#435, 16#43a, 16#441, 16#442].
[1090,1077,1082,1089,1090]

You can convert it to utf8 for output

2> xmerl_ucs:to_utf8(Text).
[209,130,208,181,208,186,209,129,209,130]

And you can reverse it and convert that to utf8.

3> xmerl_ucs:to_utf8(lists:reverse(Text)).
[209,130,209,129,208,186,208,181,209,130]