About Wingdings Translator
Wingdings Translator converts text into Wingdings symbols and decodes them back, accurately, in your browser. This page explains who builds it, and why it gets the symbols right.
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Why this site exists
Most Wingdings translators quietly substitute emoji that merely resemble the real glyphs. Paste their output next to a genuine Wingdings message and the two do not match.
That is the problem this site was built to fix. It uses the real character maps, so a decoded message says what the sender actually wrote.
How the character maps are built
The maps are not typed out by hand and not copied from other sites.
They are generated from the Unicode code page tables, then checked against the font files Microsoft ships.
Wingdings maps each keystroke through the Private Use Area, and the fonts carry Microsoft's own glyph names.
The build script reads those names and fails if a single character disagrees with the generated map.
- Generated from the published code page tables, not transcribed.
- Verified character by character against the real Wingdings, Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3 and Webdings font files.
- Output uses the standard Unicode characters approved in June 2014, so symbols display without the font installed.
What the tool covers
All four fonts in the family are supported, in both directions, along with a few things the font alone does not solve.
- Wingdings, Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3 and Webdings, each with its own character map.
- Decoding in the other direction, including automatic detection of which font a message was written in.
- Reading symbols out of a screenshot, when there is no text to paste.
- A full printable chart of every key and the symbol it produces.
Privacy by construction
Nothing you type is sent anywhere. The translation happens in your browser against a table already loaded on the page, and images you read symbols from never leave your device.
There is no account to create. Visitor numbers are counted with analytics, which never sees your text.
Who builds it
Wingdings Translator is built and maintained by Milind Kumar Sahu, a developer who builds small, focused web tools that do one job properly and run without a signup.
Corrections are welcome. If a symbol looks wrong, that is a bug worth reporting, and it gets checked against the font file rather than argued about.
A note on what Wingdings is not
Wingdings is a font, not a cipher. The mapping is public, so anything written in it can be read by anyone who looks it up.
It is a good puzzle and a fun way to decorate a message. It is not a way to keep a secret.