normalized = normalized.substring(0, normalized.length() - 1);
        }

        // Handle current directory references
        normalized = normalized.replace("\\.", "");
        normalized = normalized.replace(".\\", "");

        return normalized;
    }

    /**
     * Validate UNC path
     */

    }

    /**
     * Normalizes the string representation of a number.
     *
     * @param s
     *            A string representing a number
     * @return The normalized string
     * @see #normalize(String, Locale)
     */
    public static String normalize(final String s) {
        return normalize(s, LocaleUtil.getDefault());
    }

    /**

        String url = "smb://server/share/folder/file.txt";
        String normalized = validator.validateSmbUrl(url);
        assertTrue(normalized.startsWith("smb://"));
        assertTrue(normalized.contains("server"));
        assertTrue(normalized.contains("/share/folder/file.txt") || normalized.contains("\\share\\folder\\file.txt"));
    }

    @Test

    public static String toString(final BigDecimal dec) {
        return dec.toPlainString();
    }

    /**
     * Normalizes a {@link BigDecimal}.
     *
     * @param dec
     *            The {@link BigDecimal} to normalize
     * @return The normalized data
     */
    private static BigDecimal normalize(final BigDecimal dec) {
        return new BigDecimal(dec.toPlainString());
    }

 * lookups.
 *
 * <p>During construction, names are normalized in two ways:
 *
 * <ol>
 *   <li>ASCII uppercase characters are converted to lowercase.
 *   <li>Unicode dot separators other than the ASCII period ({@code '.'}) are converted to the ASCII
 *       period.
 * </ol>
 *
 * <p>The normalized values will be returned from {@link #toString()} and {@link #parts()}, and will

                    }
                    normalized = true;
                } else {
                    repos.add((ArtifactRepository) repository);
                }
            }

            if (normalized) {
                return repos;
            }
        }

        return (List<ArtifactRepository>) repositories;
    }

     * Truncates and normalizes content to create a summary suitable for display.
     *
     * @param responseData the response data from crawling (not currently used)
     * @param content the content to create a digest from
     * @param dataMap additional data map (not currently used)
     * @param maxWidth the maximum width of the digest
     * @return the abbreviated and normalized digest, or empty string if content is null

  while (!bufferA.exhausted()) {
    val codePoint = bufferA.readUtf8CodePoint()
    if (!IDNA_MAPPING_TABLE.map(codePoint, bufferB)) return null
  }

  // 2. Normalize, from bufferB to bufferA.
  val normalized = normalizeNfc(bufferB.readUtf8())
  bufferA.writeUtf8(normalized)

  // 3. For each label, convert/validate Punycode.
  val decoded = Punycode.decode(bufferA.readUtf8()) ?: return null

  // 4.1 Validate.

            throw new IORuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns the normalized protocol.
     *
     * @param protocol
     *            The protocol. Must not be {@literal null} or empty.
     * @return The normalized protocol.
     */
    public static String toCanonicalProtocol(final String protocol) {
        assertArgumentNotEmpty("protocol", protocol);

	if isGroup {
		dnValidator = sys.LDAPConfig.GetValidatedGroupDN
	}

	// map of normalized DN keys to original keys.
	normalizedDNKeysMap := make(map[string][]string)
	var collectedErrors []error
	var skipped []string
	for k := range policyMap {
		_, err := ldap.NormalizeDN(k)
		if err != nil {
			// not a valid DN, ignore.
			continue
		}