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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>zigamorph</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../Z.html" title="Z"/><link rel="previous" href="zeroth.html" title="zeroth"/><link rel="next" href="zip.html" title="zip"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">zigamorph</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="zeroth.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Z</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="zip.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="zigamorph"/><dt xmlns="" id="zigamorph"><b>zigamorph</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/zig'@·morf/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Hex FF (11111111) when used as a delimiter or
<a href="../F/fence.html"><i class="glossterm">fence</i></a> character. Usage: primarily at IBM shops.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [proposed] <span class="grammar">n.</span> 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 &#8212; support for
<a href="../E/elvish.html"><i class="glossterm">elvish</i></a> is planned for a future release).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="zeroth.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Z.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="zip.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">zeroth </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> zip</td></tr></table></div></body></html>