runes
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.Anything that requires heavy wizardry or black art to parse: core dumps, JCL commands, APL or code in a language you haven't a clue how to read. Not quite as bad as line noise, but close.
Compare casting the runes, Great Runes.
2.Special display characters (for example, the high-half graphics on an IBM PC). [Jargon File]
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
The Jargon File
1.Anything that requires heavy wizardry or black art to parse: core dumps, JCL commands, APL, or code in a language you haven't a clue how to read. Not quite as bad as line noise, but close. Compare casting the runes, Great Runes.
2.Special display characters (for example, the high-half graphics on an IBM PC).
3.[borderline techspeak] 16-bit characters from the Unicode multilingual character set.