high surrogate
In the context of Unicode and UTF-16 encoding, a "high surrogate" is essential for representing characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
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Definition
C2Unicode Encoding
(technical)A 16-bit code value in the range U+D800 to U+DBFF, used in UTF-16 encoding as the first part of a pair to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
Example
- The high surrogate is always followed by a low surrogate to form a complete character in UTF-16.
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