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23522	reverse() should return a text string, not a byte string	Jon Dufresne	nobody	"<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/MVpcOtt9oXc/9Qzjv88cMSEJ>

As of now, `reverse()` returns a byte string. It should return a Unicode string (or text). URLs are used as text in many different contexts: HTML template, mail, JSON, etc.

Pull request to follow."	Bug	closed	Core (URLs)	dev	Normal	fixed			Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0