Tool to decipher / read the standard galactic alphabet (SGA), used in Commander Keen then in other universes like Quake 4 or Minecraft (enchantment table alphabet). Instantly encode, translate and recognize SGA.
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Standard Galactic Alphabet
Standard Galactic Alphabet Decoder
Standard Galactic Alphabet Encoder
Pixelated Version (Minecraft)
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Answers to Questions (FAQ)
What is the Standard Galactic Alphabet? (Definition)
The Standard Galactic alphabet is an invented alphabet, it is used in several videogame universes to start with Commander Keen, Quake 4 or Minecraft (where it usually renamed alphabet of enchantment, because it appears with the table of enchantment/enchanting table).
How to encrypt/write using Standard Galactic Alphabet?
The Standard Galactic alphabet (also abbreviated SGA) is a series of 26 symbols replacing the 26 letters of the classic Latin alphabet.
The writing of a text in English is satisfied with a replacement character by character.
Example: STANDARD s'écrit .png)
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The numbers 0-9 are not intended to be translated into the Standard Galactic Alphabet.
How to decrypt/read Standard Galactic Alphabet?
The reading of the galactic alphabet is also a replacement symbol after symbol by the corresponding letters.
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is translated MINECRAFT
Why is the Unicode alphabet not recommended?
Some users have adapted the intergalactic alphabet to Unicode (in order copy-paste translations) but this is a very bad adaptation (the characters are not the correct ones and are very approximate) which is however quite widespread.
Example: becomes ᔑ or ɾ (depending on variants), .png)
becomes ʖ, etc. the resemblance is pretty bad.
How to recognize a Standard Galactic Alphabet ciphertext?
The alphabet is composed of symbols with runic inspirations, it is generally presented as a written language (it is mostly an alphabet).
All references to video games, specifically Commander Keen, Quake 4 or Minecraft and its enchantment table, are clues.
In its Unicode version, characters are ᔑʖᓵ↸ᒷ⎓⊣⍑╎⋮ꖌꖎᒲリ𝙹!¡ᑑ∷ᓭℸ ̣ ⚍⍊∴̇/||⨅
When was the Standard Galactic Alphabet invented?
The alphabet appears in Commander Keen, a video game released in 1990.
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- Standard Galactic Alphabet Decoder
- Standard Galactic Alphabet Encoder
- Pixelated Version (Minecraft)
- What is the Standard Galactic Alphabet? (Definition)
- How to encrypt/write using Standard Galactic Alphabet?
- How to decrypt/read Standard Galactic Alphabet?
- Why is the Unicode alphabet not recommended?
- How to recognize a Standard Galactic Alphabet ciphertext?
- When was the Standard Galactic Alphabet invented?
