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).

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Ruby rude RUFL run RUNCIBLE	casting the runes chase pointers dump examining the entrails Great Runes	runic run-length encoding Run Length Limited run time run-time environment