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in reply to Re^6: Repurposing reverse
in thread How to reverse a (Unicode) string

So we're in agreement, the documentation for reverse needs to be updated to clarify what it does, right?
perlunicode
And finally, scalar reverse() reverses by character rather than by byte.
perldoc -f reverse
In scalar context, concatenates the elements of LIST and returns a string value with all characters in the opposite order.