What is surrogate pair in SAP BC-I18-UNI - I18N Unicode?

SAP Term: surrogate pair

• Component: BC-I18-UNI

• Component Name: I18N Unicode

• Description: Coded character representation for a single abstract character that consists of a sequence of two code units, where the first unit of the pair is a high surrogate and the second is a low surrogate.

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• Key Concepts: 
  A surrogate pair is a type of character encoding used in the Unicode standard. It is a two-byte sequence that represents a single character. The first byte is known as the high surrogate and the second byte is known as the low surrogate. The high and low surrogates are used to represent characters that are not part of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). 
  
  How to use it: 
  Surrogate pairs are used to represent characters that are not part of the BMP. To use surrogate pairs, you must first determine which characters you need to represent. Then, you can use the Unicode code point for each character to determine the corresponding surrogate pair. 
  
  Tips & Tricks: 
  When using surrogate pairs, it is important to remember that they are not interchangeable with other character encodings. Additionally, some programming languages may not support surrogate pairs, so it is important to check before attempting to use them. 
  
  Related Information: 
  Surrogate pairs are part of the BC-I18-UNI I18N Unicode component in SAP. This component provides support for internationalization and localization of applications. It also provides support for various character encodings, including UTF-8 and UTF-16, which both use surrogate pairs.