surrogate pairs

A form of surrogate pair — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of surrogate pair
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