}
    return new String(dest, 0, destIndex);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the Unicode code point of the character at the given index.
   *
   * <p>Unlike {@link Character#codePointAt(CharSequence, int)} or {@link String#codePointAt(int)}
   * this method will never fail silently when encountering an invalid surrogate pair.
   *
   * <p>The behaviour of this method is as follows:
   *
   * <ol>