} else if (firstIsRandalcat) {
        // 'If a string contains any RandALCat character, the string MUST NOT contain any LCat
        // character.'
        if (codePoint in lcatSet) return null

        // 'If a string contains any RandALCat character, a RandALCat character MUST be the last
        // character of the string.'
        if (validateBuffer.exhausted() && codePoint !in randalcatSet) return null
      } else {

  /**
   * Asserts that an escaper does not escape the given character.
   *
   * @param escaper the non-null escaper to test
   * @param c the character to test
   */
  public static void assertUnescaped(CharEscaper escaper, char c) {
    Assert.assertNull(computeReplacement(escaper, c));
  }

  /**
   * Asserts that a Unicode escaper does not escape the given character.
   *
   * @param escaper the non-null escaper to test

    private final SuccessorsFunction<Character> delegate;
    final Multiset<Character> requestedNodes = HashMultiset.create();

    RequestSavingGraph(SuccessorsFunction<Character> delegate) {
      this.delegate = checkNotNull(delegate);
    }

    @Override
    public Iterable<? extends Character> successors(Character node) {
      requestedNodes.add(node);

 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>All specified safe characters remain unchanged.
 *   <li>If {@code plusForSpace} was specified, the space character " " is converted into a plus
 *       sign {@code "+"}.
 *   <li>All other characters are converted into one or more bytes using UTF-8 encoding and each
 *       byte is then represented by the 3-character string "%XX", where "XX" is the two-digit,

    abstract Table<String, Integer, Character> createTable();

    @Override
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public Cell<String, Integer, Character>[] createArray(int length) {
      return (Cell<String, Integer, Character>[]) new Cell<?, ?, ?>[length];
    }

    @Override
    public List<Cell<String, Integer, Character>> order(
        List<Cell<String, Integer, Character>> insertionOrder) {

    private final SuccessorsFunction<Character> delegate;
    final Multiset<Character> requestedNodes = HashMultiset.create();

    RequestSavingGraph(SuccessorsFunction<Character> delegate) {
      this.delegate = checkNotNull(delegate);
    }

    @Override
    public Iterable<? extends Character> successors(Character node) {
      requestedNodes.add(node);

   * Returns the index of the first matching BMP character in a character sequence, or {@code -1} if
   * no matching character is present.
   *
   * <p>The default implementation iterates over the sequence in forward order calling {@link
   * #matches} for each character.
   *
   * @param sequence the character sequence to examine from the beginning
   * @return an index, or {@code -1} if no character matches
   */

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // C can only be @Nullable Character or Character
  protected @NonNull C cellValue(Character character) {
    return (C) character;
  }

  // Only safe wrt. ClassCastException. Not null-safe (can be used to test expected Table NPEs)
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  protected C nullableCellValue(@Nullable Character character) {
    return (C) character;
  }

 *
 *  * In queries, ' ' is encoded to '+' and '+' is encoded to "%2B".
 *
 *  * Characters in `encodeSet` are percent-encoded.
 *
 *  * Control characters and non-ASCII characters are percent-encoded.
 *
 *  * All other characters are copied without transformation.
 *
 * @param alreadyEncoded true to leave '%' as-is; false to convert it to '%25'.

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // C can only be @Nullable Character or Character
  protected @NonNull C cellValue(Character character) {
    return (C) character;
  }

  // Only safe wrt. ClassCastException. Not null-safe (can be used to test expected Table NPEs)
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  protected C nullableCellValue(@Nullable Character character) {
    return (C) character;
  }