Wingdings Translator: Convert English to Wingdings and Decode Symbols Instantly

A Wingdings translator converts normal English text into Wingdings symbols and decodes Wingdings back into readable English. Paste your text into the tool below, pick a direction, and copy the result. No login, no download, no limit.

Wingdings is a symbol font where each letter on your keyboard maps to a picture instead of a character. A Wingdings translator swaps those letters for symbols (or reverses the process) using a fixed lookup table. The output is copy-paste ready and works anywhere the Wingdings font is installed or where Unicode symbols are supported.

How to Use the Use the Wingdings Translator

The key step most people miss: paste your symbols into the output box, not the input. Paste in the wrong box and nothing happens. That’s the source of nearly every “this translator doesn’t work” complaint you’ll find in forums.

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Why Do Different Wingdings Translators Show Different Symbols?

This is the most common confusion in the whole Wingdings space, and almost nobody explains it properly.

Wingdings was never designed as an alphabet cipher. It’s a font encoding system, which means the original Wingdings font file just replaces standard keyboard characters with pictures when you type them. Press “A” and the font renders a hand. Press “B” and it renders a pen. The symbols aren’t assigned to Unicode slots the way normal letters are.

Because of that, different translator sites have built their own lookup tables from scratch. Some sites try to replicate the original Microsoft Wingdings font mapping as closely as possible. Others publish a simplified or modified A-to-Z replacement table that’s easier to use for copy-paste purposes but doesn’t match the original font exactly.

The practical result: type the same word into three different Wingdings translators and you might get three slightly different symbol strings. None of them is necessarily “wrong.” They’re just using different tables.

The fix: if you need your Wingdings output to match a specific source (like another person’s message, a document, or a game), make sure both you and the source are using the same mapping table or preset.

Wingdings Gaster Translator: For Undertale Fans

Who Is W.D. Gaster?

W.D. Gaster is a hidden character in the 2015 RPG Undertale, created by Toby Fox. He’s the former Royal Scientist, erased from existence before the events of the game and scattered across time and space. You can only encounter him through obscure random events and the “Fun Value” system, which is part of why his lore became such a deep rabbit hole for the fandom.

His name itself is a clue: “W.D. Gaster” is a combination of the Wingdings and Aster typefaces. Toby Fox chose Wingdings as his “language” specifically because early browsers and older systems would render Wingdings characters as empty boxes, making his dialogue literally unreadable without a translator. The mystery was intentional, and it worked.

How to Write and Decode Gaster Text

One thing most Gaster translator pages don’t tell you: Gaster’s dialogue in Undertale is always written in uppercase Wingdings. In the original game, lowercase and uppercase letters often map to the same Wingdings symbols, but if you’re trying to replicate Gaster’s exact style for fan content, roleplay, or creative writing, type in ALL CAPS first.

To decode Gaster text:

To write in Gaster’s style:

Famous Gaster Quotes Decoded

Here are three of the most recognized Gaster-adjacent Wingdings messages from Undertale, shown in symbols and plain English:

Quote 1 (the most shared among fans): ✋ 👍☼✋☜👎 ☞⚐☼ ☟☜☹🏱 Decoded: I CRIED FOR HELP

Quote 2: 👌🕆❄ ☠⚐👌⚐👎✡ 👍✌💣☜ Decoded: BUT NOBODY CAME

Quote 3 (from Mystery Man encounter): 🕈☟⚐ 🕈☟⚐ 🕈☟⚐ Decoded: WHO WHO WHO

These are the lines that sent thousands of Undertale players rushing to a Wingdings decoder for the first time. If you’re making fan content, these are the references your audience will immediately recognize.

Wingdings 2 Translator

Wingdings 2 is a separate font from the original Wingdings, and it has a noticeably different character set. Microsoft introduced it in 1992, two years after the original. 

Where Wingdings 1 focuses on general shapes, hand gestures, and arrows, Wingdings 2 adds astrology signs, religious symbols, enclosed alphanumeric characters (circled numbers 0 through 10), multiple forms of the ampersand, and an interrobang.

If you’re working on something that needs a zodiac symbol, a circled number, or a more decorative punctuation mark, Wingdings 2 is the version you want. For secret messages and Gaster-style encoding, Wingdings 1 is the standard.

Example: the letter A

When someone sends you a Wingdings message and the decoded output looks wrong or scrambled, the first thing to check is whether they used Wingdings 2 instead of Wingdings 1. Switch your preset and try again.

Wingdings Character Chart: Full A-Z Reference

Every letter, number, and common punctuation mark in Wingdings 1 maps to a specific symbol. Here’s the complete A-Z reference:

Wingdings has 224 characters in total. The table above covers the most commonly used keys. For a full reference including extended punctuation and special characters, the fontstylepro.com character chart includes every entry.

Wingdings 1 vs. Wingdings 2 vs. Wingdings 3 vs. Webdings

These four fonts are related but genuinely different. Here’s a quick comparison:

Wingdings 1 is what most people mean when they say “Wingdings.” It’s the one bundled with Windows 3.1, the one Gaster uses, and the one almost every online translator supports by default.

Webdings was built by Vincent Connare at Microsoft in 1997, specifically for the growing web. It looks visually similar to Wingdings but the symbol-to-key mapping is completely different. Pasting Webdings text into a Wingdings translator will give you garbage output. They are not interchangeable.

Wingdings was originally developed by Microsoft as a symbol-based typeface. You can learn more about its character set and history through the official Microsoft Wingdings font documentation.

Where Does Wingdings Text Actually Work?

This depends on whether you’re pasting symbols that require the Wingdings font to be installed, or symbols that have been mapped to Unicode equivalents.

The “boxes” problem: if you see empty squares instead of Wingdings symbols, it means the Wingdings font isn’t installed on that device. This is common on phones and on systems that don’t have Microsoft Office. The solution is to use Unicode-mapped symbol equivalents (which our translator produces) rather than raw font-encoded characters.

Fun Facts About Wingdings

The NYC conspiracy

Type the letters N, Y, C into Wingdings 1 and you get: ☠ ✡ 👍 (skull and crossbones, Star of David, thumbs up). When this was noticed in 1992, it caused a genuine controversy. Microsoft had to publicly explain that the character order in Wingdings was determined by the original Lucida font licensing arrangement and the pairing was entirely coincidental. 

The U.S. Postal Service even issued a statement. It remains the most famous “Easter egg” in typography history, accidental or otherwise.

The patent angle

The Wingdings glyph arrangement was awarded U.S. Design Patent D341848 in 1993. That patent expired in 2005. So the specific character ordering in Wingdings 1 was legally protected intellectual property for over a decade.

Wingdings as pre-emoji

Wingdings existed for the same reason emoji do now: people wanted expressive, visual symbols in digital text and the standard keyboard didn’t provide them. When Unicode expanded in the 2010s and emoji became universal, Wingdings lost its practical utility. But it gained cultural longevity thanks to Undertale and the internet’s love of obscure symbol ciphers.

FAQ

FontStylePro‘s Wingdings translator uses a character-by-character mapping table built from the original Wingdings 1 font encoding. Unicode-compatible symbol output is generated for maximum cross-platform compatibility. No account or download required.