Morse to Text Calculator

How it is calculated

The tool works both ways. Text to Morse upper-cases the text (Turkish ı and İ are folded to I), splits it into words on spaces, and looks each character up in a table: letters A-Z, digits 0-9, the Turkish letters Ç, Ğ, Ş, Ö, Ü and common punctuation such as . , ? ! / ( ) & : ; = + - _ @. Letters of a word are joined by one space and words by / . If any character is not in the table, the tool gives no result rather than skipping it. Morse to text reads codes separated by spaces and words separated by /; a code it does not know becomes ?. The result also shows its length in characters.

Common mistakes

• Separating Morse words with a double space or nothing at all. Words must be divided by a slash (/); extra spaces between letters are ignored, but without the slash two words run together as one.
• Running letters together without spaces. ..... meant as H and E (.... .) is read as the single digit 5, and an unknown run of dots and dashes becomes ?; separate each letter with a space.
• Using unsupported characters when encoding, such as é, ä, % or emoji. One such character stops the whole result, so replace it first.
• Writing the dash as an en dash (–) or the dot as a middle dot (·). Only the plain hyphen-minus - and full stop . are recognised, and others show up as ?.
• Choosing the wrong direction. Pasting Morse while text-to-Morse is selected does not fail, it encodes every dot and hyphen as punctuation, and decoding plain text gives a row of ?.