Decode pager and phone-key codes

Look up five listed pager-era number messages or encode letters as repeated telephone-key presses.

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How it works

Decode mode performs an exact lookup for 143, 1432, 411, 911, and 07734. Encode mode maps letters to repeated presses on keys 2–9 and spaces to 0, which is multi-tap entry rather than predictive T9.

  • Numeric decoding is the starting mode because it handles a pasted pager message.
  • Unknown numbers remain unresolved because communities used different code lists.

Worked example

Decode pager and phone-key codes
Input
											Input: 143
Mode: decode
Output
												I love you

When to use this

Museum captions explain 143, retro-phone puzzles use repeated keypad presses, and media transcripts identify the upside-down-display form 07734.

Edge cases

  • 1432 matches its complete listed phrase instead of being split into 143 and 2.
  • An unlisted sequence reports no match rather than fabricating a meaning.
  • Encode mode passes punctuation unchanged, while spaces between emitted groups are needed to separate adjacent letters on the same key.