low surrogate (English, noun)
expansion: low surrogate (plural low surrogates)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Unicode
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: low surrogates
tags: plural