high surrogate (English, noun)
expansion: high surrogate (plural high surrogates)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Unicode
glosses: 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.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Unicode
glosses: 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.
A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DB7F (the High Surrogates block), excluding the range of code points used in encoding characters from the private-use planes 15 and 16.
Forms:
form: high surrogates
tags: plural