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high surrogates

high surrogates is the plural of high surrogate.

Meaning of high surrogate

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.

Questions about high surrogates

What is high surrogates the plural of?
High surrogates is the plural of high surrogate.

Words near high surrogates in the dictionary

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

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