} 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 {

 *
 * <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,

  /**
   * 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

   *
   * @param replacementMap a map of characters to their escaped representations
   * @param safeMin the lowest character value in the safe range
   * @param safeMax the highest character value in the safe range
   * @param unsafeReplacement the default replacement for unsafe characters or null if no default
   *     replacement is required
   */
  protected ArrayBasedUnicodeEscaper(
      Map<Character, String> replacementMap,
      int safeMin,

    // which means they are treated as pairs of safe characters).
    builder.setSafeRange(Character.MIN_VALUE, '\uFFFD');
    // Unsafe characters are replaced with the Unicode replacement character.
    builder.setUnsafeReplacement("\uFFFD");

    /*
     * Except for \n, \t, and \r, all ASCII control characters are replaced with the Unicode
     * replacement character.
     *

    Character[] array = new Character[elements.length];
    int i = 0;
    for (Object e : elements) {
      array[i++] = (Character) e;
    }
    return create(array);
  }

  /**
   * Creates a new collection containing the given elements; implement this method instead of {@link
   * #create(Object...)}.
   */
  protected abstract List<Character> create(Character[] elements);

  @Override

    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);

  @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'.

    private final Map<Character, String> replacementMap = new HashMap<>();
    private char safeMin = Character.MIN_VALUE;
    private char safeMax = Character.MAX_VALUE;
    @CheckForNull private String unsafeReplacement = null;

    // The constructor is exposed via the builder() method above.
    private Builder() {}

    /**
     * Sets the safe range of characters for the escaper. Characters in this range that have no