Webdings Font

Webdings is a font created by Microsoft in 1997 and integrated with its Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser.

Webdings is a dingbats font (symbols) that was presented as a basic font for the Web by Microsoft. Today depreciated, its symbols / icons / pictograms have for the most part been integrated in the Unicode standard.

Webdings is a font with an equivalent for most ASCII codes. An encryption via Webdings therefore uses the substitution table proposed by the Webdings font. Thus, a letter or a digit is replaced by a symbol.

Example: WEB is written

Decryption requires the Webdings font, each symbol is replaced by the corresponding letter in english.

Example: is translated DINGBAT with webdings font

Since Unicode version 7, a majority of pictograms (geometric symbols, arrows, ornaments, etc.) from Wingdings and Webdings were added to the Unicode code E00x series E0Ax for Wingdings and E0Bx to E18x for Webdings.

Unicode includes Webdings pictograms of this categories : GUI Symbols, Playback buttons, Terrain icons, Vacation, Transportation, Humans, Sports, Business, Social, E-Mails, Office, Cultural Activities, Recording and filming, Telecommunication services and devices, Weather symbols or Accommodation etc.