Kruti Dev vs Unicode (Mangal) — what's the difference?
Kruti Dev 010 is a legacy "glyph" font from the 1990s: it draws Hindi letters using the English keyboard codes (typing d shows क, k shows ा). The text is stored as English characters, so it looks like gibberish anywhere the font is missing and cannot be searched, translated or shown on a phone. Unicode (the Mangal font in Windows, Nirmala UI, Noto Sans Devanagari, or any phone's Hindi) stores real Devanagari letters that work everywhere — WhatsApp, websites, Google, Excel and government portals.
Kruti Dev is still mandatory in many typing exams (UP Police, UPSSSC, MP, Rajasthan LDC, CPCT, court steno) and old DTP files, which is why conversion is needed in both directions.
How to use
- Paste your text in the left box — the conversion is instant.
- Tap Copy result.
- Paste into Word/Excel. For Kruti Dev output, select the pasted text and set the font to Kruti Dev 010 (or DevLys 010); for Unicode output any Hindi font works.
Why convert Kruti Dev to Unicode?
- Old Kruti Dev documents can be made searchable, shareable on WhatsApp/email and readable on phones.
- Government portals, e-office, Google Docs and websites accept only Unicode Hindi.
- Unicode text can be machine-translated or spell-checked.
Need the reverse? Use Unicode to Kruti Dev. For DevLys files use DevLys to Unicode (same engine).