Convert modern Unicode Hindi (Devanagari) text to Chanakya ASCII font encoding. Perfect for publishing digital Hindi content in InPage, press DTP software, and legacy newspaper workflows.
Accepts: Devanagari Unicode (U+0900–U+097F)
Output: Chanakya ASCII — apply Chanakya font in InPage/Word
Copy Devanagari Unicode Hindi from any website, social media, Google Docs, or WhatsApp and paste into the input box.
Each Unicode Devanagari character is mapped to its Chanakya keyboard equivalent in real time using a greedy longest-match algorithm.
Paste the output into InPage, PageMaker or any press software that uses Chanakya. Apply the Chanakya font — your Hindi text will render immediately.
Modern Hindi content — from news websites, Wikipedia, social media, and digital publications — is stored in Unicode (UTF-8). However, a large portion of India's Hindi press and DTP industry still operates on legacy ASCII fonts like Chanakya, particularly for newspaper layout in InPage and PageMaker.
This converter bridges that gap. A journalist writing in Unicode on their smartphone can instantly convert their article to Chanakya encoding for the newspaper's layout desk. A blog post can be adapted for print. A government press release can reach the press in the right format.
The conversion uses a comprehensive Unicode Devanagari (U+0900–U+097F) → Chanakya keyboard map with greedy longest-match to correctly handle conjuncts, matras, and special forms.
| Unicode | Devanagari | Chanakya |
|---|---|---|
| U+0915 | क | k |
| U+0916 | ख | V |
| U+0917 | ग | x |
| U+0924 | त | r |
| U+0925 | थ | T |
| U+0926 | द | d |
| U+0928 | न | u |
| U+092E | म | m |
| Unicode | Devanagari | Chanakya |
|---|---|---|
| U+093E | ा | a |
| U+093F | ि | f |
| U+0940 | ी | L |
| U+0941 | ु | . |
| U+0947 | े | s |
| U+0902 | ं | ; |
| U+094D | ् | z |
| U+0964 | । | | |
This is expected! Chanakya is an ASCII font — its characters look like English letters until you apply the Chanakya font. After pasting into InPage or MS Word, select all the text and change the font to "Chanakya". The Hindi characters will display instantly.
Yes. The converter uses a greedy longest-match algorithm that checks for Unicode clusters like क्ष (ka+halant+sha) and ज्ञ (ja+halant+nha) and maps them to their correct Chanakya multi-character sequences. Half-forms, reph (र्), and subscript-ra (्र) are also handled.
Yes — use our Chanakya to KrutiDev converter (then KrutiDev to Unicode), or use the Swap button on this page to flip the conversion direction and convert Chanakya back to Unicode.