Problem Statement

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If the program uses UTF-8 or UTF-16,   it must work on any valid Unicode code point, whether in the   Basic Multilingual Plane   or above it. The program must reference logical characters (code points),   not 8-bit code units for UTF-8 or 16-bit code units for UTF-16. Programs for other encodings (such as 8-bit ASCII, or EUC-JP) are not required to handle all Unicode characters.

Let's start with the solution:

def str = 'abcdefgh'
def n = 2
def m = 3
// #1
println str[n..n+m-1]
/* or */
println str[n..<(n+m)]
// #2
println str[n..-1]
// #3
println str[0..-2]
// #4
def index1 = str.indexOf('d')
println str[index1..index1+m-1]
/* or */
println str[index1..<(index1+m)]
// #5
def index2 = str.indexOf('de')
println str[index2..index2+m-1]
/* or */
println str[index2..<(index2+m)]