The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
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).
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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]