"surrogate pair" meaning in All languages combined

See surrogate pair on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: surrogate pairs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} surrogate pair (plural surrogate pairs)
  1. (computing, 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. Categories (topical): Computing

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