RUNES


Meaning of RUNES in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ 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.

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.