MarathidevanagariUnicode → Legacy
Turn Unicode Marathi like “मराठी” into Kiran 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 Kiran → Unicode in one click.
Loss report
Characters a font can’t show are flagged, not dropped.
186 mappings
Every one is listed in the chart below.
01 · About the font
Kiran is a legacy Devanagari font that stores text as ordinary English letters and draws the real letters with the font itself.
Kiran is a legacy (non-Unicode) font. Instead of storing real Devanagari characters, it draws Devanagari shapes on top of English keys, so a document typed in it looks like random Latin letters on any device that doesn’t have the font installed.
Converting to Unicode stores the real characters, which every phone, browser and search engine understands. This converter’s mapping is based on a published open-source table; the Sources list at the end of this page names it and its licence, and the chart below lists every mapping the converter uses.
मराठी ऱ्या
marazI %yaa
This sample is converted with the same engine as the tool above, when this page was built, and matches the expected text exactly.
Anyone with older Marathi documents
Files typed in Kiran show as Latin letters on any device without the font. Converting them makes the text readable, searchable and editable anywhere.
02 · For print, DTP and typing
Some printers, layout programs and typing-test environments still need text in Kiran. 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 Marathi text in Noto Sans Devanagari, Google Docs, a website or WhatsApp. Real Unicode characters, not already-converted text.
Characters Kiran 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 (“marazI”). That is correct: the font turns them back into Marathi shapes.
Paste into Word, PageMaker, CorelDRAW or your exam software and apply the Kiran 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 Kiran keystrokes, so it only looks like Marathi when the Kiran font is applied. It has to be installed on the computer that opens the file.
Pasting Kiran text into Google Docs shows English letters instead of Marathi.
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.
186 mappings
Click a letter to copy the Unicode character. Click the key cap to copy the Kiran key.
05 · Known limits
Coverage in this converter
Checked against Padma, the open-source converter this mapping was taken from: 236 of 240 test conversions matched exactly. All 4 differences were equivalent spellings. Because the mapping comes from that project, this checks how faithfully it was carried over, not whether the original table is right. Round trip: we converted 50,757 Devanagari test strings (word-list words, sentences, and every consonant, vowel sign, conjunct, reph and nukta combination) to Kiran and back. 50,750 came back exactly; the other 7 contain a character or sequence the font cannot write unambiguously, which the converter flags. See the accuracy page for every difference.
06 · FAQ
No. The conversion runs in your browser, and nothing you paste is sent anywhere.
Yes. Paste it into the Kiran 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: 236 of 240 test conversions matched Padma exactly. Each of the other 4 was reviewed. 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.