surrogate pair

Noun

Meaning

surrogate pair (plural surrogate pairs)

(computing, Unicode) The UTF-16 representation of a supplementary character, using one high surrogate and one low surrogate to encode the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the supplementary character's code point.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Close letter words and terms

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