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surrogate pair

surrogate pair noun: 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.

Noun

surrogate pair (plural surrogate pairs)

  1. (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.

Forms of surrogate pair

pluralsurrogate pairs

Questions about surrogate pair

What does surrogate pair mean?
Surrogate pair means 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.
What part of speech is surrogate pair?
Surrogate pair is a noun.
What is the plural of surrogate pair?
The plural of surrogate pair is surrogate pairs.

Words near surrogate pair in the dictionary

  1. surrogate fathers
  2. surrogate key
  3. surrogate keys
  4. surrogate mother
  5. surrogate mothers
  6. surrogate pair
  7. surrogate pairs
  8. surrogate parent
  9. surrogate parents
  10. surrogate proxies
  11. surrogate proxy

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