It's been requested to add methods that return the number of Unicode code points in the specified text range in a String, StringBuffer, StringBuilder, CharSequence and char[].

The following methods:

  Character.codePointCount(CharSequence seq, int beginIndex, int endIndex)
  Character.codePointCount(char[] a, int index, int count)
  String.codePointCount(int beginIndex, int endIndex)
  StringBuffer.codePointCount(int beginIndex, int endIndex)
  StringBuilder.codePointCount(int beginIndex, int endIndex)

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