/** WAVE DASH */
    public static final char WAVE_DASH = '\u301C';

    /** FULLWIDTH TILDE */
    public static final char FULLWIDTH_TILDE = '\uFF5E';

    /** DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE */
    public static final char DOUBLE_VERTICAL_LINE = '\u2016';

    /** PARALLEL TO */
    public static final char PARALLEL_TO = '\u2225';

    /** MINUS SIGN */
    public static final char MINUS_SIGN = '\u2212';

        if (length == 0) {
            return;
        }

        final int s = length % 16;
        final int r = s == 0 ? length / 16 : length / 16 + 1;
        final char[] c = new char[r * (74 + NL_LENGTH)];
        final char[] d = new char[16];
        int i;
        int si = 0;
        int ci = 0;

        do {
            toHexChars(si, c, ci, 5);
            ci += 5;
            c[ci] = ':';

    }

    /**
     * Generates the NT password hash for the given password.
     * This version accepts char[] for better security.
     *
     * @param password the password to hash as char array
     * @return nt password hash
     */
    public static byte[] getNTHash(final char[] password) {
        if (password == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException("Password parameter is required");

            final char originalChar1 = sb.charAt(i);
            final char originalChar2 = sb.charAt(i + 1);
            final char margedChar = mergeChar(originalChar1, originalChar2);
            if (margedChar != originalChar1) {
                sb.setCharAt(i, margedChar);
                sb.deleteCharAt(i + 1);
            } else {

            int i = 0;
            do {
                if (i >= buf.length) {
                    final char[] nb = new char[buf.length * 2];
                    System.arraycopy(buf, 0, nb, 0, buf.length);
                    buf = nb;
                }
                buf[i++] = (char) peekc;
                peekc = read();
                peekct = peekc < 0 ? CT_WHITESPACE : peekc < 256 ? ctype[peekc] : CT_ALPHA;

     * @return a hexadecimal string representation of the value, padded to the specified size
     */
    public static String toHexString(final int val, final int size) {
        final char[] c = new char[size];
        toHexChars(val, c, 0, size);
        return new String(c);
    }

    /**
     * Converts a long value to a hexadecimal string representation with specified padding.
     *

        String input = "Test" + String.valueOf((char) 0x0020) // space
                + String.valueOf((char) 0x0009) // tab
                + String.valueOf((char) 0x000A) // line feed
                + String.valueOf((char) 0x000D) // carriage return
                + String.valueOf((char) 0xD7FF) + String.valueOf((char) 0xE000) + String.valueOf((char) 0xFFFD);
        String result = XmlUtil.stripInvalidXMLCharacters(input);

     */
    public static String dec_utf8(final byte[] src, int si, final int slim) throws IOException {
        final char[] uni = new char[slim - si];
        int ui, ch;

        for (ui = 0; si < slim && (ch = src[si++] & 0xFF) != 0; ui++) {
            if (ch < 0x80) {
                uni[ui] = (char) ch;
            } else if ((ch & 0xE0) == 0xC0) {
                if (slim - si < 2) {
                    break;

            }
            count++;
        }

        return value;
    }

    static final char[] HEXCHARS = { '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F' };

    private static String bin_to_hex(int value, final int length) {
        final char[] arr = new char[length];
        int ai = arr.length;
        while (ai-- > 0) {
            arr[ai] = HEXCHARS[value & 0xF];

            buffer[i] = (short) 0;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        final int len = length / 2 - (zterm ? 1 : 0);
        final char[] ca = new char[len];
        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            ca[i] = (char) buffer[i];
        }
        return new String(ca, 0, len);
    }