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surrogate pairs

surrogate pairs is the plural of surrogate pair.

Meaning of surrogate pair

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.

Questions about surrogate pairs

What is surrogate pairs the plural of?
Surrogate pairs is the plural of surrogate pair.

Words near surrogate pairs in the dictionary

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

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