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Non Private Use High Surrogate-Db64

Non Private Use High Surrogate-Db64 at U+DB64 is a high-surrogate code point used only as the first half of a UTF-16 pair for representing supplementary Unicode characters. It sits in the High Surrogates block and has the general category Surrogate, so it is not a printable character, letter, symbol, or spacing mark on its own. In real data, this code unit may appear inside UTF-16 text when paired with a matching low surrogate to encode a character above the basic multilingual plane, such as many emoji, historic scripts, musical symbols, and rare CJK ideographs. Its exact meaning depends entirely on the low surrogate that follows it; by itself it does not denote an emoji, script character, or control function. People normally encounter it only through broken text processing, debugging tools, validators, or databases that expose individual UTF-16 code units. The important gotcha is that an unpaired high surrogate is ill-formed Unicode text: it can cause replacement characters, failed validation, indexing errors, or mismatches between character counts and storage units.

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