high surrogates

A form of high surrogate — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of high surrogate
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