// returning nil instead of empty slice if all spaces.
		return nil
	}
	return s[start:stop]
}

// Runes interprets s as a sequence of UTF-8-encoded code points.
// It returns a slice of runes (Unicode code points) equivalent to s.
func Runes(s []byte) []rune {
	t := make([]rune, utf8.RuneCount(s))
	i := 0
	for len(s) > 0 {
		r, l := utf8.DecodeRune(s)
		t[i] = r
		i++

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<li>
Converting a slice of runes to a string type yields
a string that is the concatenation of the individual rune values
converted to strings.

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string([]rune{0x767d, 0x9d6c, 0x7fd4})   // "\u767d\u9d6c\u7fd4" == "白鵬翔"
string([]rune{})                         // ""
string([]rune(nil))                      // ""

type runes []rune

		}
	}
}

// Test that the rune splitter returns same sequence of runes (not bytes) as for range string.
func TestScanRune(t *testing.T) {
	for n, test := range scanTests {
		buf := strings.NewReader(test)
		s := NewScanner(buf)
		s.Split(ScanRunes)
		var i, runeCount int
		var expect rune
		// Use a string range loop to validate the sequence of runes.
		for i, expect = range test {
			if !s.Scan() {
				break
			}

}

// WriteRune writes a single Unicode code point, returning
// the number of bytes written and any error.
func (b *Writer) WriteRune(r rune) (size int, err error) {
	// Compare as uint32 to correctly handle negative runes.
	if uint32(r) < utf8.RuneSelf {
		err = b.WriteByte(byte(r))
		if err != nil {
			return 0, err
		}
		return 1, nil
	}
	if b.err != nil {
		return 0, b.err
	}
	n := b.Available()