RFR: 8364007: Add no-argument codePointCount method to CharSequence and String [v6]

[Tatsunori Uchino]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:01:29 GMT, Tatsunori Uchino <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Adds `codePointCount()` overloads to `String`, `Character`, `(Abstract)StringBuilder`, and `StringBuffer` to make it possible to conveniently retrieve the length of a string as code points without extra boundary checks.
>> 
>> 
>> if (superTremendouslyLongExpressionYieldingAString().codePointCount() > limit) {
>>     throw new Exception("exceeding length");
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> Is a CSR required to this change?
>
> Tatsunori Uchino has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Remove `Character.codePointCount` overload

Do I need to merge master? It looks like the CI is failing for reasons unrelated to this PR.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26461#issuecomment-3804516489