HindidevanagariUnicode → Legacy
Turn Unicode Hindi like “ऋषि” into Walkman Chanakya 905 keystrokes for Word and DTP software, and see exactly which characters the font can’t show.
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Runs on your device
Nothing is uploaded. Works offline once loaded.
Both directions
Swap to go Chanakya → Unicode in one click.
Loss report
Characters a font can’t show are flagged, not dropped.
159 mappings
Every one is listed in the chart below.
01 · About the font
Walkman Chanakya: a legacy Devanagari font family from Hindi newspaper, magazine and book production.
The Walkman Chanakya fonts (such as the 901 and 905 releases) belong to the DTP era in which newspapers and publishers laid out pages in software that predates Unicode. As with every font in this family of encodings, the file stores English letters and the font draws Devanagari.
Chanakya has its own key assignments. Text typed in Chanakya is not interchangeable with Kruti Dev or DevLys: switching the font on a Chanakya file produces wrong letters, not corrected ones. The reliable route between any two legacy fonts is through Unicode.
A few glyph mappings were corrected after an entry-by-entry check against IIT Delhi’s InDesignFontConverters and KrutiExtract, two open-source converters. That check covered selected glyphs only, not the whole IIT table.
ऋषि फल खाते हैं।
½f"k iQy [kkrs gSaA
This sample is converted with the same engine as the tool above, when this page was built, and matches the expected text exactly.
Newspapers and magazines
Chanakya was used for Hindi page production, so some older editorial archives are in this font.
Publishers and printers
Book and brochure files made in older layout software.
Archivists and digitisation projects
Anyone who needs these archives to be searchable has to convert them to Unicode first.
02 · For print, DTP and typing
Some printers, layout programs and typing-test environments still need text in Walkman Chanakya 905. This converter writes the exact keystrokes the font expects and lists any characters the font cannot show, so nothing is lost without you knowing.
Type or paste Hindi text in Mangal, Google Docs, a website or WhatsApp. Real Unicode characters, not already-converted text.
Characters Walkman Chanakya 905 has no glyph for are highlighted. Replace them in the source before you send the file to print or submit it.
The output looks like English letters (“½f"k”). That is correct: the font turns them back into Hindi shapes.
Paste into Word, PageMaker, CorelDRAW or your exam software and apply the Walkman Chanakya 905 font. If the font is not installed, the text keeps showing as English letters.
Have a whole document instead of a paragraph? The Word file converter keeps tables, bold text and layout.
03 · Output font
The converted text is Walkman Chanakya 905 keystrokes, so it only looks like Hindi when the Walkman Chanakya 905 font is applied. It has to be installed on the computer that opens the file.
Pasting Walkman Chanakya 905 text into Google Docs shows English letters instead of Hindi.
04 · Mapping chart
This is the actual table the converter uses, generated from the engine. Search for a key you see in garbled text, or for a letter you want to type.
159 mappings
Click a letter to copy the Unicode character. Click the key cap to copy the Walkman Chanakya 905 key.
05 · Known limits
Coverage in this converter
Compared with HinLegacy on 720 conversions, 236 matched exactly. All 484 differences were errors in HinLegacy. Round trip: we converted 50,757 Devanagari test strings (word-list words, sentences, and every consonant, vowel sign, conjunct, reph and nukta combination) to Walkman Chanakya 905 and back. 50,752 came back exactly; the other 5 contain a character Walkman Chanakya 905 has no glyph for, which the converter flags. See the accuracy page for every difference.
06 · FAQ
Usually because a legacy page-layout template or a print house still works in Chanakya. For anything that will be read on screens, keep it in Unicode.
The same Walkman Chanakya release the destination file uses, usually 905. Without it installed, the text shows as English letters.
Mangal text is Unicode, so paste it here. Then set the output font to Walkman Chanakya in Word or your DTP app, otherwise it shows as English letters.
No. The conversion runs in your browser, and nothing you paste is sent anywhere.
Yes. Paste it into the Chanakya to Unicode converter, or press the swap button above. Characters the loss report flagged were kept as Unicode, so they come back unchanged.
In our tests it agreed exactly with HinLegacy on 236 of 720 conversions. Each of the other 484 was reviewed, and every one was an error in HinLegacy. The sample on this page converts exactly as expected. No fluent-speaker review has been done, so read important text before you print or submit it.