surrogate pair

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

surrogate pair surrogate pairs
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