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low surrogate

low surrogate noun: a code point in the range U+DC00 through U+DFFF (the Low Surrogates block), used in UTF-16 to encode the low 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.

Noun

low surrogate (plural low surrogates)

  1. (Unicode) A code point in the range U+DC00 through U+DFFF (the Low Surrogates block), used in UTF-16 to encode the low 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.

Forms of low surrogate

plurallow surrogates

Questions about low surrogate

What does low surrogate mean?
Low surrogate means a code point in the range U+DC00 through U+DFFF (the Low Surrogates block), used in UTF-16 to encode the low 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.
What part of speech is low surrogate?
Low surrogate is a noun.
What is the plural of low surrogate?
The plural of low surrogate is low surrogates.

Words near low surrogate in the dictionary

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