How this calculator works
Wingdings is not an encryption and it does not change the letters you type: it is a font whose glyphs are pictures, and the picture for each character code was chosen by its designer. The capital and lowercase ranges use different pictures, so A is a victory hand while a is the Cancer zodiac sign. This page looks up each ASCII letter and digit in the documented character map and returns the Unicode symbol for the same picture, which lets the result travel through plain text. Characters outside A to Z, a to z and 0 to 9 pass through unchanged.
Formula
Result = for each character, the Unicode symbol assigned to that exact Wingdings code point, or the character itself when the table has no entry. The lookup is case sensitive because the font draws different symbols for upper and lower case. The chart output lists all 62 mapped characters.
Worked example
ABC becomes the victory hand, the turned OK hand and the thumbs up sign. Lowercase abc becomes Cancer, Leo and Virgo, three zodiac signs from the font. The number 2026 becomes the document, folder, document and hourglass symbols. A space stays a space and punctuation stays as typed.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Wingdings a secret code?
No. It is a font, and the mapping is public. Anyone with the chart can read it, and this page translates in one direction. The old story that Wingdings hid anti-Semitic messages in New York City was a coincidence of glyph shapes, not a cipher.
Why do upper-case and lower-case letters give different symbols?
The font designer gave the two ranges separate pictures. Capitals are mostly hands, faces and religious symbols, while lowercase letters are the zodiac signs followed by geometric shapes. The translator keeps the case of your input so each code point gets the picture the font would draw.
Why do some symbols look like emoji?
The Unicode Consortium assigned standard code points to many of these pictographs from Unicode 7.0 onward, so a modern device may draw them in colour emoji style rather than as the original monochrome Wingdings glyphs. The character is the same; the artwork depends on the font on the viewing device.
Can I translate the symbols back into letters?
Only with the same chart, and only for the 62 mapped characters. This page does the forward direction. Because the symbols are ordinary Unicode characters, a reverse lookup would need to match each symbol to its letter, and characters outside the table would have no answer.
Does this work in every app?
The symbols are standard Unicode, so most modern apps display them. Older fonts and some email clients may show a blank box for the rarer pictographs. If a symbol is critical, test it in the destination app before you send it.