runes

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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