def _is_control(char):
    """Checks whether `chars` is a control character."""
    # These are technically control characters but we count them as whitespace
    # characters.
    if char == "\t" or char == "\n" or char == "\r":
        return False
    cat = unicodedata.category(char)
    if cat.startswith("C"):
        return True
    return False
Checks whether `chars` is a control character.
training/BingBertSquad/pytorch_pretrained_bert/tokenization.py