Mangal to Unicode only works if you name the right font
People run this when Hindi was typed in Mangal and they want standard Unicode for the web.
Mangal is already a Unicode font, so this page normalizes the text rather than translating a legacy encoding. The words stay in the browser.
If the Hindi comes out scrambled
Text that only looked like Hindi because of Kruti Dev will not be fixed here. Convert from Kruti Dev first. Work on a copy so you can compare a line you can read.
The other Hindi font tools are on the font tools page.
When Mangal to Unicode is the right page
Mangal to Unicode sits on this site because Mangal and Unicode are not interchangeable, even when they look similar in a file list. People run this when Hindi was typed in Mangal and they want standard Unicode for the web. People run a Mangal conversion when they think the font name is an encoding. Often it is not. Websites, phones, and current Word need Unicode, not a legacy font encoding.
Mangal is already a Unicode font, so this page normalizes the text rather than translating a legacy encoding. The words stay in the browser.
What you give up by leaving Mangal
Mangal is a Unicode Hindi font. Text typed in Mangal is already Unicode. Kruti Dev or Devlys text will not be fixed by a Mangal tool. Use the tool named for that font.
Keep a copy and compare one line.
What you gain, and do not gain, with Unicode
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.
A test that matches the real file
Start from the question the other software asked. If it asked for Unicode, Mangal to Unicode is the matching page. If it asked for something else, switch tools instead of hoping a similar extension will pass. People run this when Hindi was typed in Mangal and they want standard Unicode for the web. Mangal is already a Unicode font, so this page normalizes the text rather than translating a legacy encoding. The words stay in the browser. The limit is the part people skip, and it is the part that decides whether the download is usable. Text that only looked like Hindi because of Kruti Dev will not be fixed here. Convert from Kruti Dev first. Work on a copy so you can compare a line you can read. The text stays in the browser. Try one line you can check before a whole document. Do not paste passwords. Check three things in the download: it opens, the Mangal material you cared about is still there, and the file size or the layout is what the form described. A new extension alone is not those three things. If a portal, a teacher, or a client rejects the file, send them the original Mangal as well when you are allowed to. Mangal to Unicode is a convenience copy. It is not a new master. Legacy Hindi fonts are not Unicode. Mangal 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 Mangal to Unicode. You start with Mangal and you stop when a real program accepts Unicode. Normalizing Unicode text can clean characters without a legacy remap. 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.
Text that only looked like Hindi because of Kruti Dev will not be fixed here. Convert from Kruti Dev first. Work on a copy so you can compare a line you can read.
A related step, if you still need one, is Unicode to Mangal.
Other jobs start from the homepage, where each tool is named for the conversion it actually does.