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zigamorph
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/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).