MalayalamUnicode → Legacy
Turn Unicode Malayalam like “ഇന്നത്തെ” into FML Malayalam 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 FML Malayalam → Unicode in one click.
Loss report
Characters a font can’t show are flagged, not dropped.
138 mappings
Every one is listed in the chart below.
01 · About the font
Convert the fixture-tested FML Malayalam layout with pre-base vowels, conjuncts and atomic chillus.
This profile follows Kalkandam’s MIT-licensed Malayalam converter and published tests. It emits the FML nda slot ï, which differs from the ML soft-hyphen slot.
ഇന്നത്തെ ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ വാർത്തകൾ
C¶s¯ Gähpw ]pXnb hmÀ¯IÄ
This sample is converted with the same engine as the tool above, when this page was built, and matches the expected text exactly.
Malayalam document editors
Legacy text whose font uses the tested FML layout.
02 · For print, DTP and typing
Some printers, layout programs and typing-test environments still need text in FML Malayalam. 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 Malayalam text in Noto Sans Malayalam, Google Docs, a website or WhatsApp. Real Unicode characters, not already-converted text.
Characters FML Malayalam 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 (“C¶s¯”). That is correct: the font turns them back into Malayalam shapes.
Paste into Word, PageMaker, CorelDRAW or your exam software and apply the FML Malayalam 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 FML Malayalam keystrokes, so it only looks like Malayalam when the FML Malayalam font is applied. It has to be installed on the computer that opens the file.
Pasting FML Malayalam text into Google Docs shows English letters instead of Malayalam.
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.
138 mappings
Click a letter to copy the Unicode character. Click the key cap to copy the FML Malayalam key.
05 · Known limits
Coverage in this converter
Checked against Kalkandam, the open-source converter this mapping was taken from: 720 of 720 test conversions matched exactly. Because the mapping comes from that project, this checks how faithfully it was carried over, not whether the original table is right. See the accuracy page for every difference.
06 · FAQ
Historical virama plus joiner spellings normalize to atomic chillus and receive a loss warning when their original sequence changes.
No. The conversion runs in your browser, and nothing you paste is sent anywhere.
Yes. Paste it into the FML Malayalam to Unicode converter, or press the swap button above. Characters the loss report flagged were kept as Unicode, so they come back unchanged.
It was checked against the converter its mapping came from: all 720 test conversions matched Kalkandam exactly. No independent converter has confirmed the table itself yet. 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.