The order of the rules is important. For example, if your first rule was a ➡ @, and your second rule was @ ➡ A, then all the "a" characters would end up being translated to "A". This is because the input text is passed through your rules, one-by-one. You should think of your rules like a step-by-step "recipe" for how to transform the input text into the output text.

You can translate whole words too! For example, if you create a rule like lizard ➡ 🦎🦎🦎 then all instances of "lizard" in the input box will be translated into 3 lizard emojis.

You can use a tool like Shape Catcher to find fancy characters that have a particular shape by sketching the desired shape.

Advanced: If you're feeling ambitious, you can use "regular expressions" (i.e. "regex" rules) to create more complex translation rules than simple substitutions. Here are some examples of regex rules that you can use:

• If a word starts with "m", replace the word with "moo": /\b(m[^\s]+)/g ➡ moo
• Repeat all the input characters 3 times: /(.)/g ➡ $1$1$1
• Add "-moo" to the end of all words: /\b([^\s]+)/g ➡ $1-moo
• Repeat the final letter of all words: /\b([^\s]+)([^\s])/g ➡ $1$2$2
• Replace all new lines (enter/return) with underscores: /\n/g ➡ _
• Replace "cat" with "dog" no matter the capitalisation of "cat": /cat/gi ➡ dog