Runes

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The Jargon File

Parts of this article are based on the Jargon File, v. 4.4.7,
a public domain document of hacker jargon.

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runes
Usage: pl. n.
Derivation: Borderline techspeak

See Also: casting the runes, Great Runes


runes: pl. n.

  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.
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Sources

Source: runes, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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