[GROOVY-3286] DefaultGroovyMethods#reverse(String) does not reverse strings correctly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.7, 1.6-rc-1
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.4, 1.7-beta-1
• Component/s: groovy-jdk
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Alexander Veit
• Created: 15/Jan/09 16:36
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 19:13
• Resolved: 15/May/09 15:59

Description

The current implementation does not handle Unicode surrogate pairs. It fails for characters outside the BMP.

Here's a patch for the bug:

    public static String reverse(String self) {
        return new StringBuilder(self).reverse().toString();
    }