Morse code

Morse code transliterators exist all over the web, but there are many more languages in Morse and many rules that very often get left out of these pages.

Encoder / Decoder

Controls:

Choose a version of Morse and type away.

- Morse Version:
- Text:
- Morse:
- Dit (dot)
- Dah (dash)
- [?]Longer internal gap used in C, O, R, Y, Z and &. It is only used in old USA Morse (default is underscore). Long intra-character gap
- Long dash [?]The letter L in old Morse (default is 2 em dashes).
- Longer dash [?]The numeral 0 in German and old Morse (default is 4 em dashes)
- [?]Standard gap between the dots and dashes in a character (default is a soft hyphen i.e. a zero width space). Intra-character gap
- [?]Between letters (default is a space). Short gap
- [?]Between words (default is 2 spaces). Medium gap
- [?]Between sentences (default is 4 spaces). Long gap
- [?]When set if a letter or morse sequence is not recognized it will be removed. Remove untranslated letters?
- [?]Procedural signals are non written Morse, things like End of contact, or Understood. Use prosigns?
  See the list the prosigns.
- [?]Abbreviations are used for brevity like K for Over and R for Received. Use abbreviations?
  See the list of abbreviations.
- [?]Traditional frequency is 600Hz up to 1000Hz. Playback frequency?
- [?]Default speed is 25WPM (Words Per Minute). 1200ms per dit is 1WPM. Playback words per minute?

Why Morse?

This script is an ongoing attempt to encompass all (or at least a few) the wonders and romance of the Morse family, among its features are:

- It supports original Morse code, Wabun, German and Russian codes, as well as the (ITU) international standard in use today.
- It can support a full range of customizable separators. Old morse used a double length dah for the letter L and the German version used a dah four times long for zero.

Invalid characters are omitted, and with the default settings one space separates letters and two separate words.

For example:

The plaintext
```
HELLO WORLD
```
Becomes:
```
H E L L O  W O R L D
```
And with the replacements (in ITU):
```
.... . .-.. .-.. ---  .-- --- .-. .-.. -..
```
In old morse it would be:
```
.... . —— —— ._.  .-- ._. ._.. —— -..
```
As you can see there is a third character to represent the old values such as long dash and longer dash, you can change these using the More Options button.
Other examples:

For the German word
```
ÜBERMENSCH
```
In "Gerke" railroad morse is:
```
..-- -... . .-. -- . -. ... ----
```
In Russian morse the word for hello "здороваться" is:
```
--.. -.. --- .-. --- .-- .- - -..- ... .-.-
```
In Japanese Wabun code bye or "サヨウナラ" (Sa Yo U Na Ra) would be:
```
-.-.- -- ..- .-. ...
```
Note that only Wabun has limited support for latin characters, Russian and German morse will transliterate some letters but not all characters can be covered.