Krutidev to Unicode

Modern Word, websites, and phones need Unicode Hindi, not Kruti Dev characters. Browse more Font Tools.

KrutidevUnicode

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How it works

1
Upload

Select or drag your Krutidev file into the converter.

2
Convert

Click convert and wait for processing to finish.

3
Download

Save your Unicode file instantly.

Supported formats

Krutidev Unicode

Paste text that was typed in Kruti Dev. The tool rewrites it as Unicode so it displays in any Hindi font.

Krutidev to Unicode only works if you name the right font

Modern Word, websites, and phones need Unicode Hindi, not Kruti Dev characters.

Paste text that was typed in Kruti Dev. The tool rewrites it as Unicode so it displays in any Hindi font.

If the Hindi comes out scrambled

The source must actually be Kruti Dev. Converting text that is already Unicode will scramble it.

The other Hindi font tools are on the font tools page.

Why Krutidev to Unicode is its own job

Krutidev to Unicode sits on this site because Krutidev and Unicode are not interchangeable, even when they look similar in a file list. Modern Word, websites, and phones need Unicode Hindi, not Kruti Dev characters. Old Indian office documents were typed in Kruti Dev and fall apart in Gmail or on a phone. Websites, phones, and current Word need Unicode, not a legacy font encoding.

Paste text that was typed in Kruti Dev. The tool rewrites it as Unicode so it displays in any Hindi font.

The Krutidev file you already have

Kruti Dev is a legacy Hindi font. The letters are not real Unicode, so they break when you change fonts. The source must actually be Kruti Dev. The wrong mapping produces the wrong words.

Keep the original document until the Unicode text matches it.

What a Unicode result is for

The download has to be Unicode, because that is the format the next step named. Websites, phones, and current Word need Unicode, not a legacy font encoding. Once text is Unicode, any normal Hindi font can display it, including Mangal.

Test one sentence you can read before a whole document.

How to tell that Krutidev to Unicode worked

Krutidev to Unicode is worth using only when Unicode is what the next step actually named. Modern Word, websites, and phones need Unicode Hindi, not Kruti Dev characters. What you get from Krutidev to Unicode: Paste text that was typed in Kruti Dev. The tool rewrites it as Unicode so it displays in any Hindi font. Before you trust it: The source must actually be Kruti Dev. Converting text that is already Unicode will scramble it. The text stays in the browser. Try one line you can check before a whole document. Do not paste passwords. A second pass rarely helps. If the first Unicode file is rejected, read the error from the program that rejected it. Another conversion of a bad result usually makes the file worse, not more compatible. When you are done, you should still have the Krutidev original and one Unicode download that you have opened. If those two are the same kind of failure, this was the wrong tool and the page above is the place that says so. Legacy Hindi fonts are not Unicode. Krutidev to Unicode only works if you name the font the text was actually typed in. The wrong mapping produces words that look like Hindi and say something else. Convert one sentence you can read, compare it, then do the rest. Keep a copy of the original document.

Here is the decision for Krutidev to Unicode. You start with Krutidev and you stop when a real program accepts Unicode. Mapping Kruti Dev to Unicode makes the words survive a font change. Running Unicode through a Kruti Dev or Devlys converter scrambles real Hindi. If those two sentences describe a tradeoff you do not want, do not convert. Renaming the extension by hand will not do this job. Running the tool twice on its own output will not do it either.

The source must actually be Kruti Dev. Converting text that is already Unicode will scramble it.

A related step, if you still need one, is Unicode to Krutidev.

Other jobs start from the homepage, where each tool is named for the conversion it actually does.

Frequently asked questions

Modern Word, websites, and phones need Unicode Hindi, not Kruti Dev characters.

Unicode Hindi (the text you get from Google and modern Windows) is the standard. Old Indian fonts stored different characters that only looked like Hindi in a special font.

Paste text that was typed in Kruti Dev. The tool rewrites it as Unicode so it displays in any Hindi font.

The source must actually be Kruti Dev. Converting text that is already Unicode will scramble it.

Open the Unicode file in the program that will actually use it. If you needed a different result, use another tool in this category and keep the original.