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).

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {fence}{green bytes}]