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.
Typing Mangal, pasting Kruti Dev — common uses
- Preparing study material or press notes in Mangal/Google Input and converting to Kruti Dev for a department that still uses it.
- Making Kruti Dev practice passages for typing exams from Unicode text.
- Opening Unicode text in old PageMaker/CorelDRAW files.
Going the other way? Use Kruti Dev to Unicode. DevLys 010 uses the same key layout as Kruti Dev 010, so this converter also serves as Unicode to DevLys.