def _is_whitespace(char):
  """Checks whether `chars` is a whitespace character."""
  # \t, \n, and \r are technically contorl characters but we treat them
  # as whitespace since they are generally considered as such.
  if char == " " or char == "\t" or char == "\n" or char == "\r":
    return True
  cat = unicodedata.category(char)
  if cat == "Zs":
    return True
  return False
Checks whether `chars` is a whitespace character.
understand_icl/struprompting/data/squad/basic_tokenizer.py