Krutidev to Unicode

Kruti Dev is a font, not a language setting. Each Hindi shape sits on an English key, so भारत is stored as the letters Hkkjr. On a computer with the font it looks like Hindi; anywhere else, or after copy and paste, it turns into those letters. Search, spell check, mobile phones, websites and most government portals expect Unicode Hindi, the same text you get from Google Indic or a phone keyboard. Converting fixes this for good: the result shows correctly in any Unicode font such as Mangal, Nirmala UI or Noto Sans Devanagari.

A simple letter-for-letter swap gets Hindi wrong, because Kruti Dev stores some shapes in the order they are drawn, not the order they are read. The short i matra (ि) is typed before its consonant (f then the letter), and the reph (र् on top) is typed after the letter and its matras (Z at the end). The converter moves them to Unicode order and carries them across half letters, so fLFkfr becomes स्थिति, dhfrZ becomes कीर्ति, and dk;ksaZ becomes कार्यों. It also handles nukta (cM+k to बड़ा, Q+kby to फ़ाइल), rakar (xzkeh.k to ग्रामीण, jk"Vªh; to राष्ट्रीय), conjuncts such as क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ, श्र, द्ध and द्व, Hindi digits, the danda (A to ।) and the Kruti Dev keys for brackets and quotes.

Word files are where most Kruti Dev text lives. Open a .docx and only the text set in a Kruti Dev font changes; English in Arial or Times, tables, pictures, headers, footers, bold and sizes stay as they are. Words that Word split into several pieces are joined before converting, so the ि still lands on the right letter. The Hindi gets Mangal by default, or Nirmala UI or Noto Sans Devanagari if you prefer, and its size and bold carry over. If the file used Kruti Dev under another font name, you can convert all text instead.

The other direction helps when a typing test, court or office template still needs Kruti Dev 010. Paste Unicode Hindi, press Convert, then paste the keys into Word and set the font to Kruti Dev 010. Hindi with no Kruti Dev key, and English letters, are listed so you know what to fix. Use Convert this back to check a result either way.

Your text and Word files are converted by code running in this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, saved or logged, and there is no sign-up. We only count anonymous events such as the Convert button being pressed, never the words.

What it cannot do: tell English apart from Kruti Dev inside pasted plain text (both are English letters), so mixed text is best converted from the .docx, where fonts tell them apart. Nukta letters typed without the nukta key stay without a nukta. It is built for Kruti Dev 010; other legacy fonts such as Chanakya or DevLys use different keys and need their own converter. Old .doc files must be saved as .docx in Word first.