Text to Morse code copy and paste

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   Type or paste your message in the box, or pick one of the examples.

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   Under Dots and dashes, pick how the code looks: standard full stops and hyphens, middle dots, bullets or underscores.

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   Under Between words, keep the slash or pick a bar, a new line or your own separator.

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   Check the preview: it shows the message in a chat bubble, in the kind of font most apps use.

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   Press Copy Morse code and paste it into your message. Press Play to hear it first, or save it under Download.

Letters are always one space apart. Between words, a slash, a bar and a new line all read back into the translator here.

A new line suits a bio or a card: “Good night” copies as --. --- --- -.. -. .. --. .... - on two lines. A separator of your own, such as a plus sign, can look good, but translators won’t read it as a gap between words; the tool tells you when that happens.

• A hyphen and a space can start a list. In WhatsApp, a line that begins with a hyphen and a space becomes a bulleted list. “Thanks” starts with T, a single dash, so in the standard style it copies as - .... .- -. -.- ... and may turn into a list item. Middle dots or bullets avoid it.
• Underscores can make italics. WhatsApp shows text with an underscore on each side in italics. The letter K in the underscore style is _._, a dot between two underscores, so it can lose its dashes on screen.
• Bullets count double on X. X allows 280 characters, and by the counting rules X publishes in its twitter-text library, a bullet counts as two. SOS in bullets, ••• ––– •••, is 11 characters but counts as 17. Full stops, middle dots and both kinds of dash count as one.
• Typing hyphens by hand can join them. With Smart Punctuation on, an iPhone can turn two typed hyphens into one long dash. M is --, but the translator reads a single long dash as T. Copy the code rather than typing it, and the characters stay as they are.

Paste Morse code into the box and the tool reads it back as text, in any of the styles above. That is a quick way to check a message before you send it, or to read one sent to you.

For longer messages there is English to Morse for words and sentences, and the two-way Morse code translator has every code table. Each letter’s code, with its sound, is on the Morse code alphabet chart.

Pasted symbols suit a message. For a document or a design, use a Morse code font instead: you type ordinary letters and the font draws them as dots and dashes. Every other maker is under all Morse code tools.