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About Alaam

Alaam (أعلام) is Arabic for "signs" and "flags". The site collects small tools that turn text into signs and back: ancient scripts, classic ciphers, Morse code and signal flags.

How the tools are made

• Every tool runs in your browser. Text you type is not sent to a server.
• Sign tables are checked against the Unicode standard and published sign lists, and each page says plainly what the tool can and cannot do. A tool that writes your name in an old alphabet is not a translator of the old language, and we say so.
• Each page has a "How we tested" section that lists only tests we actually ran.

Found a mistake?

If a sign, a sound value or a fact looks wrong, please tell us which page and what you expected. Corrections are welcome.