Astral character

Astral character

Astral characters are Unicode characters that are not part of the Basic Multilingual Plane (that is, characters whose code point is above U+FFFF). In the context of Unicode, the term “astral plane” is informally used to refer to the supplementary planes above the Basic Multilingual Plane.

References

* [http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/unicode_astral.html Nicholas, Nick. Astral Planes]


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