* 
     * @return whether to announce support for unicode
     */
    boolean isUseUnicode ();


    /**
     *
     * Property <tt>jcifs.smb.client.forceUnicode</tt> (boolean, default false)
     * 
     * @return whether to use unicode, even if the server does not announce it
     */
    boolean isForceUnicode ();


    /**
     * 

   *
   * <p>This method (dangerously) assume that the strings {@code "!! a"} and {@code "~~ z"} will
   * work for this purpose, which may cause problems for navigable maps with non-string or unicode
   * generators.
   */
  private List<String> getExtremeValues() {
    List<String> result = new ArrayList<>();
    result.add("!! a");
    result.add("!! b");
    result.add("~~ y");

   *
   * <p>This method (dangerously) assume that the strings {@code "!! a"} and {@code "~~ z"} will
   * work for this purpose, which may cause problems for navigable maps with non-string or unicode
   * generators.
   */
  private List<String> getExtremeValues() {
    List<String> result = new ArrayList<>();
    result.add("!! a");
    result.add("!! b");
    result.add("~~ y");

          shift += 24;
          len += 3;
        } else {
          int codePoint = Character.codePointAt(input, i);
          if (codePoint == c) {
            // not a valid code point; let the JDK handle invalid Unicode
            return hashBytes(input.toString().getBytes(charset));
          }
          i++;
          buffer |= codePointToFourUtf8Bytes(codePoint) << shift;

   * Ascii.truncate("foobar", 5, "..."); // returns "fo..."
   * }</pre>
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> This method <i>may</i> work with certain non-ASCII text but is not safe for use
   * with arbitrary Unicode text. It is mostly intended for use with text that is known to be safe
   * for use with it (such as all-ASCII text) and for simple debugging text. When using this method,
   * consider the following:
   *
   * <ul>

    return name;
  }

  /**
   * Equality testing is based on the text supplied by the caller, after normalization as described
   * in the class documentation. For example, a non-ASCII Unicode domain name and the Punycode
   * version of the same domain name would not be considered equal.
   */
  @Override
  public boolean equals(@CheckForNull Object object) {
    if (object == this) {
      return true;
    }

        default:
            return NtlmUtil.getPreNTLMResponse(tc, this.password, chlng);
        }
    }


    /**
     * Computes the 24 byte Unicode password hash given the 8 byte server challenge.
     * 
     * @param tc
     * @param chlng
     * @return the hash for the given challenge
     * @throws GeneralSecurityException
     */

   * Ascii.truncate("foobar", 5, "..."); // returns "fo..."
   * }</pre>
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> This method <i>may</i> work with certain non-ASCII text but is not safe for use
   * with arbitrary Unicode text. It is mostly intended for use with text that is known to be safe
   * for use with it (such as all-ASCII text) and for simple debugging text. When using this method,
   * consider the following:
   *
   * <ul>

    return new StringAsImmutableList(checkNotNull(string));
  }

  /**
   * Returns a view of the specified {@code CharSequence} as a {@code List<Character>}, viewing
   * {@code sequence} as a sequence of Unicode code units. The view does not support any
   * modification operations, but reflects any changes to the underlying character sequence.
   *
   * @param sequence the character sequence to view as a {@code List} of characters

 * either {@link Character} or {@link Arrays}.
 *
 * <p>All the operations in this class treat {@code char} values strictly numerically; they are
 * neither Unicode-aware nor locale-dependent.
 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a
 * href="https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/PrimitivesExplained">primitive utilities</a>.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 1.0
 */