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high surrogate

high surrogate noun: a code point in the range U+D800 through U+DBFF (the High Surrogates and High Private Use Surrogates blocks), used in UTF-16 to encode the high 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.

Noun

high surrogate (plural high surrogates)

  1. (Unicode) A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DBFF (the High Surrogates and High Private Use Surrogates blocks), used in UTF-16 to encode the high 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.
    1. (Unicode) A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DB7F (the High Surrogates block), excluding the range of code points used in encoding characters from the private-use planes 15 and 16.

Forms of high surrogate

pluralhigh surrogates

Questions about high surrogate

What does high surrogate mean?
High surrogate means a code point in the range U+D800 through U+DBFF (the High Surrogates and High Private Use Surrogates blocks), used in UTF-16 to encode the high 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.
What part of speech is high surrogate?
High surrogate is a noun.
What is the plural of high surrogate?
The plural of high surrogate is high surrogates.

Words near high surrogate in the dictionary

  1. high striker
  2. high strikers
  3. high strikes
  4. high summer
  5. high summers
  6. high surrogate
  7. high surrogates
  8. high table
  9. high tables
  10. high tackle
  11. high tackles

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