low surrogates

A form of low surrogate — 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.

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of low surrogate
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