"surrogate pair" meaning in English

See surrogate pair in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

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
    Sense id: en-surrogate_pair-en-noun-j6iQKnR~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Inflected forms

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