I have a list of some 30000 Swedish words. The words of 3 extra swedish alphabets ö , å, å I wish to create a backward dictionry (Alphabetical sort from the last letter of the word) so that all the words with similar suffixes are together. In order to achieve this i tried to convert all the words to their reverse using reverse function but the 3 extra alphabets are replaced with some other charecters 
¥ - å
€Ã -ä
¶Ã - ö
this is my code to reverse the word. How do i convert the string to reverse without getting above mentioned characters my code to reverse is like this 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# Reading protein sequence data from a file, take 3
# The filename of the file containing the protein sequence data
$filename = 'svensk.txt';
# First we have to "open" the file
open(FILE, $filename);
# Read the protein sequence data from the file, and storeit
# into the array variable @protein
@WORDS = <FILE>;
# Print the protein onto the screen
##print scalar (@protein);

foreach $str (@WORDS)
{

$str2 = reverse $str;
print $str2;
}



close PROTEINFILE;

exit;

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2019-02-08 Athanasius added code and pre tags

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