[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

zigamorph /zig'-morf/ n. 1. hex ff 11111111 when used as a delimiter
   or fence character. usage: primarily at ibm shops. 2. proposed n.
   the unicode non-character u+ffff 1111111111111111, a character code
   which is not assigned to any character, and so is usable as
   end-of-string. unicode is a 16-bit character code intended to cover all
   of the world's writing systems, including latin, greek, cyrillic,
   chinese, hiragana, katakana, devanagari, thai, laotian and many other
   scripts - support for elvish is planned for a future release.


see also:
fence elvish 

[2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

zigamorph
     
        /zig'-morf/ 1. hex ff 11111111 when used as a delimiter
        or fence character.  usage: primarily at ibm shops.
     
        2. proposed the unicode non-character +uffff
        1111111111111111, a character code which is not assigned to
        any character, and so is usable as end-of-string.
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
hex delimiter fence ibm unicode jargon file 

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