What Does Entry Number 17 Mean?
Entry Number 17 describes darkness intensifying, shadows deepening, negative photon readings and a new experiment. It ends with a question directed at two unnamed listeners. The words are readable once the Wingdings glyphs are mapped back to their underlying English keyboard characters.
room_gaster.
The well-maintained Undertale Wiki reference for room_gaster documents that the message appears in uppercase Wingdings and is inaccessible during normal gameplay. It also distinguishes the visible text from theories about who is speaking and what the experiment represents.
Translation or Transliteration?
Entry Number 17 is not encrypted in a fictional language. Wingdings replaces ordinary letter shapes with pictograms while retaining the underlying keyboard characters. Reading the entry therefore means matching each symbol to its corresponding letter, not translating vocabulary or grammar from another language.
Microsoft describes Wingdings as a symbol-font family. On this site, “Wingdings 1” refers to the original Wingdings style so readers can distinguish it from Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3.
Why Copy-Pasted Wingdings Can Look Different
The native font preview and the portable copy version solve different problems. Native Wingdings preserves the font's intended glyph designs, but only when the destination supports that font. Copyable Unicode substitutes travel between apps more reliably, although they are not exact replicas of every Wingdings glyph.
- For a document: keep the underlying English characters and apply the Wingdings font.
- For Discord or social media: use the portable symbols and preview them before posting.
- For decoding a screenshot: compare one glyph at a time with the Wingdings 1 alphabet chart.
Confirmed Context and Fan Interpretation
The confirmed part is narrow: a hidden room contains an uppercase Wingdings entry, and the room and surrounding game data strongly connect it with W.D. Gaster. Claims about the exact experiment, the identity of the two listeners or how the passage connects to later events are interpretations. Treating those theories as theories keeps the reference useful without presenting fan conclusions as established game text.
Entry Number 17 FAQ
What does Entry Number 17 say?
It describes darkness growing deeper, negative photon readings and a new experiment that appears interesting. The message closes by addressing two listeners.
Is Entry Number 17 written in Wingdings?
Yes. The message associated with room_gaster is displayed in uppercase Wingdings. Its underlying characters are English letters rendered through the symbol font.
Can I copy and paste Entry Number 17 Wingdings?
You can copy the portable Unicode approximations above. They may not look identical to the original font and can render differently across devices and apps.
Is Entry Number 17 definitely spoken by W.D. Gaster?
The entry is strongly associated with Gaster through its room name, typeface and surrounding clues. The game does not confirm every popular interpretation about the speaker, experiment or listeners.