"high surrogate" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: high surrogates [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} high surrogate (plural high surrogates)
  1. (computing, 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. Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-high_surrogate-en-noun-DeKPlFbf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  2. (computing, 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.
    (computing, 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.
    Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-high_surrogate-en-noun-WdzEXktS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: surrogate Coordinate_terms: low surrogate

Inflected forms

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