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+language: dart
+dart_task:
+- dartanalyzer
+- dartfmt
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 # characters
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/dart-lang/characters.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/dart-lang/characters)
+
 A package for characters represented as unicode extended grapheme clusters