"low surrogate" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: low surrogates [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} low surrogate (plural low surrogates)
  1. (computing, 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. Categories (topical): Computing Hypernyms: surrogate Coordinate_terms: high surrogate

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