diff --git a/components/camel-bindy/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/dataformat/bindy/UnicodeHelper.java b/components/camel-bindy/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/dataformat/bindy/UnicodeHelper.java
index f55e4e2e923cc..6a307535cf5e9 100644
--- a/components/camel-bindy/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/dataformat/bindy/UnicodeHelper.java
+++ b/components/camel-bindy/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/dataformat/bindy/UnicodeHelper.java
@@ -117,25 +117,24 @@ public int length() {
      * @see String#indexOf(String)
      */
     public int indexOf(final String str) {
+        return indexOf(str, 0);
+    }   
+    
+    /**
+     * @see String#indexOf(String, int)
+     */
+    public int indexOf(final String str, final int fromIndex) {
         split();
         
-        final int tempIdx = input.indexOf(str);
-        if (tempIdx < 0) {
-            return tempIdx;
-        }
-        
-        for (int b = 0; b < splitted.size() - 1; b++) {
-            if (tempIdx == splitted.get(b)) {
-                for (int e = b + 1; e < splitted.size() - 1; e++) {
-                    if (tempIdx + str.length() == splitted.get(e)) {
-                        return b;
-                    }
-                }
+        final int len = new UnicodeHelper(str, method).length();
+
+        for (int index = fromIndex; index + len < length(); index++) {
+            if (str.equals(input.substring(splitted.get(index), splitted.get(index + len)))) {
+                return index;
             }
         }
-        
-        final String cps = str.codePoints().mapToObj(cp -> String.format("0x%X", cp)).collect(Collectors.joining(","));
-        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Given string (" + cps + ") is not a valid sequence of " + this.method + "s.");
+
+        return -1;
     }
     
     private void split() {
diff --git a/components/camel-bindy/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/dataformat/bindy/annotation/FixedLengthRecord.java b/components/camel-bindy/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/dataformat/bindy/annotation/FixedLengthRecord.java
index d8d93aebcce48..ebfbe7381bfb0 100644
--- a/components/camel-bindy/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/dataformat/bindy/annotation/FixedLengthRecord.java
+++ b/components/camel-bindy/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/dataformat/bindy/annotation/FixedLengthRecord.java
@@ -102,5 +102,5 @@
     /**
      * Indicates how chars are counted
      */
-    boolean countGrapheme() default true;
+    boolean countGrapheme() default false;
 }
diff --git a/components/camel-bindy/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/dataformat/bindy/UnicodeHelperTest.java b/components/camel-bindy/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/dataformat/bindy/UnicodeHelperTest.java
index 67658879e2062..b2e7fdb34f989 100644
--- a/components/camel-bindy/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/dataformat/bindy/UnicodeHelperTest.java
+++ b/components/camel-bindy/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/dataformat/bindy/UnicodeHelperTest.java
@@ -167,49 +167,43 @@ public void testSubstringGrapheme2() {
     public void testIndexOf() {
         final UnicodeHelper lh = new UnicodeHelper("a", Method.CODEPOINTS);
         Assert.assertEquals(-1, lh.indexOf("b"));
-        
+
         final UnicodeHelper lh2 = new UnicodeHelper(
-            "a" + new String(Character.toChars(0x1f600)) + "a" + UCSTR + "A" + "k\u035fh" + "z",
+            "a" + new String(Character.toChars(0x1f600)) + "a" + UCSTR + "A" + "k\u035fh" + "z"
+            + "a" + new String(Character.toChars(0x1f600)) + "a" + UCSTR + "A" + "k\u035fh" + "z", 
             Method.CODEPOINTS);
-        
+
         Assert.assertEquals(1, lh2.indexOf(new String(Character.toChars(0x1f600))));
+        Assert.assertEquals(14, lh2.indexOf(new String(Character.toChars(0x1f600)), 13));
         
         Assert.assertEquals(3, lh2.indexOf(UCSTR));
-        
+        Assert.assertEquals(16, lh2.indexOf(UCSTR, 13));
+
         Assert.assertEquals(10, lh2.indexOf("\u035f"));
-        
-        expectIllegalArgumentException(() -> {
-            lh2.indexOf(Character.toString(Character.toChars(0x1f600)[0])); // UTF-16  surrogates are no codepoints.
-        });
+        Assert.assertEquals(23, lh2.indexOf("\u035f", 13));
     }
-    
+
     @Test
     public void testIndexOf2() {
         final UnicodeHelper lh = new UnicodeHelper("a", Method.GRAPHEME);
         Assert.assertEquals(-1, lh.indexOf("b"));
-        
+
         final UnicodeHelper lh2 = new UnicodeHelper(
-            "a" + new String(Character.toChars(0x1f600)) + "a" + UCSTR + "A" + "k\u035fh" + "z",
-            Method.GRAPHEME);
-        
+            "a" + new String(Character.toChars(0x1f600)) + "a" + UCSTR + "A" + "k\u035fh" + "z"
+            + "a" + new String(Character.toChars(0x1f600)) + "a" + UCSTR + "A" + "k\u035fh" + "z", 
+            Method.GRAPHEME
+        );
+
         Assert.assertEquals(1, lh2.indexOf(new String(Character.toChars(0x1f600))));
-        
+        Assert.assertEquals(9, lh2.indexOf(new String(Character.toChars(0x1f600)), 8));
+
         Assert.assertEquals(3, lh2.indexOf(UCSTR));
+        Assert.assertEquals(11, lh2.indexOf(UCSTR), 8);
         
-        expectIllegalArgumentException(() -> {
-            lh2.indexOf("\u035f"); // Codepoint of dangling combing char is not a "unicode char".
-        });
-    }    
-    
-    private void expectIllegalArgumentException(final Runnable r) {
-        try {
-            r.run();
-            Assert.assertTrue("We do not expect to reach here -- missing IllegalArgumentException.", false);
-            
-        } catch (final IllegalArgumentException e) {
-            LOG.debug("Caught expected IllegalArgumentException", e);
-            
-        }
+        final UnicodeHelper lh3 = new UnicodeHelper("mm̂mm̂m", Method.GRAPHEME);
+        Assert.assertEquals(0, lh3.indexOf("m"));
+        Assert.assertEquals(2, lh3.indexOf("m", 1));
+        Assert.assertEquals(3, lh3.indexOf("m̂", 2));
     }
     
     private static String cps2String(final int... cps) {