This thread seems to have morphed from unicore to unicode.
tex
John Cowan wrote:
>
> Murray Sargent scripsit:
>
> > "Sentinel" is fairly commonly used in computer science and program code for data delimiters. "Delimiter" is also a good word for this (I use it in RichEdit code), but one may well use "delimiter" to describe a quote character (like U+0022), whereas I've never seen "sentinel" used for a quote. As such "sentinel" seems less ambiguous for Unicode code points like U+FDD0 - U+FDEF. It would be interesting to know if anyone is using these Unicode "noncharacters" for purposes other than sentinels.
>
> We could use the IBM slang term "zigamorph" for these codepoints. This
> was applied to EBCDIC FF, and I tried to popularize extending to U+FFFF,
> but it really could apply just fine to all the others as well.
>
> U+FFFE is probably not used as a sentinel, but rather as a "swap bytes"
> indicator.
>
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