guava/src/com/google/common/primitives/Chars.java
public static char saturatedCast(long value) {
    if (value > Character.MAX_VALUE) {
      return Character.MAX_VALUE;
    }
    if (value < Character.MIN_VALUE) {
      return Character.MIN_VALUE;
    }
    return (char) value;
  }
public static char saturatedCast(long value) {
    if (value > Character.MAX_VALUE) {
      return Character.MAX_VALUE;
    }
    if (value < Character.MIN_VALUE) {
      return Character.MIN_VALUE;
    }
    return (char) value;
  }
Returns the {@code char} nearest in value to {@code value}.

@param value any {@code long} value
@return the same value cast to {@code char} if it is in the range of the {@code char} type,
{@link Character#MAX_VALUE} if it is too large, or {@link Character#MIN_VALUE} if it is too
small