*/
  public static char checkedCast(long value) {
    char result = (char) value;
    checkArgument(result == value, "Out of range: %s", value);
    return result;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the {@code char} nearest in value to {@code value}.
   *
   * @param value any {@code long} value
   * @return the same value cast to {@code char} if it is in the range of the {@code char} type,

   */
  public static char checkedCast(long value) {
    char result = (char) value;
    checkArgument(result == value, "Out of range: %s", value);
    return result;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the {@code char} nearest in value to {@code value}.
   *
   * @param value any {@code long} value
   * @return the same value cast to {@code char} if it is in the range of the {@code char} type,

        if (isEmpty(name)) {
            return name;
        }
        final char[] chars = name.toCharArray();
        if (chars.length >= 2 && Character.isUpperCase(chars[0]) && Character.isUpperCase(chars[1])) {
            return name;
        }
        chars[0] = Character.toLowerCase(chars[0]);
        return new String(chars);
    }

    /**

        }
      }
      return chars.subSequence(0, l + 1);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean canDecode(CharSequence chars) {
      checkNotNull(chars);
      chars = trimTrailingPadding(chars);
      if (!alphabet.isValidPaddingStartPosition(chars.length())) {
        return false;
      }
      for (int i = 0; i < chars.length(); i++) {
        if (!alphabet.canDecode(chars.charAt(i))) {
          return false;

    if (chars instanceof String) {
      return toLowerCase((String) chars);
    }
    char[] newChars = new char[chars.length()];
    for (int i = 0; i < newChars.length; i++) {
      newChars[i] = toLowerCase(chars.charAt(i));
    }
    return String.valueOf(newChars);
  }

  /**
   * If the argument is an {@linkplain #isUpperCase(char) uppercase ASCII character}, returns the

        int i = 0;

        // This loop optimizes for pure ASCII.
        while (i + 4 <= utf16Length) {
          char c0 = input.charAt(i);
          char c1 = input.charAt(i + 1);
          char c2 = input.charAt(i + 2);
          char c3 = input.charAt(i + 3);
          if (c0 < 0x80 && c1 < 0x80 && c2 < 0x80 && c3 < 0x80) {
            update(4, c0 | (c1 << 8) | (c2 << 16) | (c3 << 24));

    Set<Character> positive = Sets.newHashSetWithExpectedSize(chars.length);
    for (char c : chars) {
      positive.add(c);
    }
    for (int c = 0; c <= Character.MAX_VALUE; c++) {
      assertFalse(positive.contains(Character.valueOf((char) c)) ^ m.matches((char) c));
    }
  }

  static char[] randomChars(Random rand, int size) {
    Set<Character> chars = new HashSet<>(size);

    if (chars instanceof String) {
      return toLowerCase((String) chars);
    }
    char[] newChars = new char[chars.length()];
    for (int i = 0; i < newChars.length; i++) {
      newChars[i] = toLowerCase(chars.charAt(i));
    }
    return String.valueOf(newChars);
  }

  /**
   * If the argument is an {@linkplain #isUpperCase(char) uppercase ASCII character}, returns the

    Set<Character> positive = Sets.newHashSetWithExpectedSize(chars.length);
    for (char c : chars) {
      positive.add(c);
    }
    for (int c = 0; c <= Character.MAX_VALUE; c++) {
      assertFalse(positive.contains(Character.valueOf((char) c)) ^ m.matches((char) c));
    }
  }

  static char[] randomChars(Random rand, int size) {
    Set<Character> chars = new HashSet<>(size);

   * Reader#skip(long) skip} to the end of the stream, and return the total number of chars that
   * were skipped.
   *
   * <p>Note that for sources that implement {@link #lengthIfKnown} to provide a more efficient
   * implementation, it is <i>possible</i> that this method will return a different number of chars
   * than would be returned by reading all of the chars.
   *