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. -- John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
