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