Convert legacy Chanakya ASCII Hindi font to modern Unicode Devanagari. Make old newspaper and InPage content compatible with websites, smartphones, modern Word documents and all digital platforms.
Supports: Chanakya, Chanakya New, Chanakya Bold
Output: Unicode Devanagari — paste anywhere on the web or in Word
Copy Chanakya-encoded text from InPage, a DTP file, or old newspaper archives and paste into the input box on the left.
Every Chanakya character is matched to its Unicode Devanagari equivalent in real time using a greedy longest-match algorithm.
Paste the Unicode output on websites, WhatsApp, Google Docs, email, or any modern application — no font needed.
Chanakya is a legacy ASCII-based Hindi font widely used in Indian print media since the 1990s. Because it encodes Devanagari characters as keyboard ASCII values, Chanakya text appears as garbled English letters on any system that doesn't have the Chanakya font installed. Converting to Unicode makes the content universally readable.
This conversion is essential for digitising newspaper archives, migrating InPage DTP content to modern CMS platforms, or sharing Hindi text from legacy publishing systems on the web and social media.
| Chanakya key | Unicode | Hindi |
|---|---|---|
| k | क | ka |
| V | ख | kha |
| x | ग | ga |
| r | त | ta |
| T | थ | tha |
| d | द | da |
| u | न | na |
| m | म | ma |
| Chanakya key | Unicode | Type |
|---|---|---|
| a | ा | aa-matra |
| f | ि | i-matra |
| L | ी | ii-matra |
| . | ु | u-matra |
| e | े | e-matra |
| ; | ं | anusvara |
| z | ् | halant |
| | | । | daṇḍa |
That's exactly how Chanakya works — it is an ASCII font where English keyboard characters represent Hindi letters. The characters only appear as Hindi when the Chanakya font is applied. This tool reads those ASCII codes and converts them to standard Unicode Devanagari that renders as Hindi everywhere.
Yes. The converter uses a greedy longest-match algorithm that prioritises multi-character Chanakya sequences. Common conjuncts like क्ष (q), ज्ञ (K), श्र (J), and त्र (=) are recognised and converted to their correct Unicode compositions.
Use our Unicode to Chanakya Converter. Alternatively, click the Swap button on this page to flip input and output.