About Cipher Cove

Cipher Cove is a small collection of free translators for codes and symbol alphabets: Morse code, Wingdings, Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Standard Galactic Alphabet, and more on the way. Every tool runs entirely in your browser. Type a message, hear it, copy it, save it as audio or an image, and close the tab. Nothing you enter is sent to us or stored anywhere.

Who makes it

Cipher Cove is built and maintained by an independent developer in the United States. It is not affiliated with Microsoft, Mojang Studios, Toby Fox, or any other company whose products are mentioned on the site. If you spot a mistake or want a translator we do not have yet, please get in touch.

Where the tables come from

The Morse code tables follow the International Morse code standard published by the ITU (Recommendation ITU-R M.1677-1) for letters, numbers and punctuation. A few characters that the standard does not define, such as the exclamation point and the dollar sign, use the forms common in amateur radio, and the chart marks them as Not ITU. Timing follows the PARIS convention: a dot is one unit, a dash is three, and 20 words per minute means 60 milliseconds per unit.

The Wingdings tables map every printable keyboard key to the matching Unicode symbol. Those symbols were added in Unicode 7.0 in 2014 to cover the Wingdings and Webdings fonts, so the translator does not need, and does not distribute, Microsoft's font. On this site the symbols are drawn with Noto Sans Symbols and Noto Sans Symbols 2, open-source fonts released under the SIL Open Font License.

The hieroglyph chart spells English by sound with the 24 Egyptian signs that each stood for one consonant, following the table of uniliteral signs on Wikipedia. Letters with no one-sound sign of their own use the nearest sign, and the translator page explains each choice. It spells words, it does not translate them into the Egyptian language. The signs are drawn with Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs, also under the SIL Open Font License.

The Standard Galactic Alphabet has no Unicode letters, so copied text uses the widely shared set of look-alike characters listed by dCode. The real letter shapes shown on the Galactic translator come from GNU Unifont, which places the alphabet at private-use code points following the Under-ConScript Unicode Registry. Unifont is used under the SIL Open Font License.

Why it runs in your browser

A translator for a hundred-character alphabet does not need a server. Keeping everything on your device means the tools are fast and never see the message you are encoding, whether it is a school project, a puzzle hint or a note for someone you love.

What is coming

Next up are translators for more alphabets, such as runes. If you want one sooner, say so on the contact page.