HindidevanagariUnicode → Legacy
Turn Unicode Hindi like “भारत” into DevLys 010 keystrokes for Word and DTP software, and see exactly which characters the font can’t show.
or drop a .txt file anywhere on this card
Runs on your device
Nothing is uploaded. Works offline once loaded.
Both directions
Swap to go DevLys → Unicode in one click.
Loss report
Characters a font can’t show are flagged, not dropped.
164 mappings
Every one is listed in the chart below.
01 · About the font
A Hindi legacy font that sits right next to Kruti Dev in offices and exam halls, and looks almost the same until one wrong letter gives it away.
DevLys 010 is another Devanagari ASCII font from the DTP era. Like Kruti Dev, it is typed on a Remington-style Hindi layout and stores Devanagari as English letters, so a DevLys document looks like gibberish (“fgUnh”) on any device without the font.
It is easy to mistake DevLys for Kruti Dev: the common letters and many keys line up. But several conjuncts, punctuation marks and special glyphs sit on different keys, which is why swapping the font name on a document often leaves a handful of wrong characters instead of fixing it.
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.
भारत में धर्म और प्रेम है।
Hkkjr esa èkeZ vkSj çse gSA
This sample is converted with the same engine as the tool above, when this page was built, and matches the expected text exactly.
Government and legal typing
DevLys 010 turns up alongside Kruti Dev in departmental typing and court work, depending on which software the office standardised on.
Typing-test candidates
Some notifications name DevLys 010 or Kruti Dev 010 as the permitted font. The permitted font and layout are set by each exam, so check yours.
Print and DTP
Older print layouts that were built in DevLys still need DevLys text when they are edited.
02 · For print, DTP and typing
Some printers, layout programs and typing-test environments still need text in DevLys 010. 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 DevLys 010 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 (“Hkkjr”). That is correct: the font turns them back into Hindi shapes.
Paste into Word, PageMaker, CorelDRAW or your exam software and apply the DevLys 010 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 DevLys 010 keystrokes, so it only looks like Hindi when the DevLys 010 font is applied. It has to be installed on the computer that opens the file.
Pasting DevLys 010 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.
164 mappings
Click a letter to copy the Unicode character. Click the key cap to copy the DevLys 010 key.
05 · Known limits
Coverage in this converter
Compared with HinLegacy on 720 conversions, 658 matched exactly. All 62 differences were equivalent spellings. Round trip: we converted 50,757 Devanagari test strings (word-list words, sentences, and every consonant, vowel sign, conjunct, reph and nukta combination) to DevLys 010 and back. 50,753 came back exactly; the other 4 contain a character DevLys 010 has no glyph for, which the converter flags. See the accuracy page for every difference.
06 · FAQ
When a print shop, an office template or a typing-test environment explicitly asks for DevLys 010. If it just says “Hindi in a legacy font”, ask which one, because Kruti Dev and DevLys are not interchangeable.
No. The output is plain English letters that only look like Hindi when the DevLys font is applied. Install the font on the machine that will open the file.
Mangal text is Unicode, so paste it here. Then set the output font to DevLys 010 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 DevLys 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 658 of 720 conversions. Each of the other 62 was reviewed. 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.