PunjabigurmukhiUnicode → Legacy
Turn Unicode Punjabi like “ਗੁਰੂ” into DrChatrik 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 DrChatrik → Unicode in one click.
Loss report
Characters a font can’t show are flagged, not dropped.
103 mappings
Every one is listed in the chart below.
01 · About the font
DrChatrik is a legacy Gurmukhi font that stores text as ordinary English letters and draws the real letters with the font itself.
DrChatrik is a legacy (non-Unicode) font. Instead of storing real Gurmukhi characters, it draws Gurmukhi 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.
ਗੁਰੂ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
gur¨ pSjfbI
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 Punjabi documents
Files typed in DrChatrik 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 DrChatrik. 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 Punjabi text in Noto Sans Gurmukhi, Google Docs, a website or WhatsApp. Real Unicode characters, not already-converted text.
Characters DrChatrik 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 (“gur¨”). That is correct: the font turns them back into Punjabi shapes.
Paste into Word, PageMaker, CorelDRAW or your exam software and apply the DrChatrik 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 DrChatrik keystrokes, so it only looks like Punjabi when the DrChatrik font is applied. It has to be installed on the computer that opens the file.
Pasting DrChatrik text into Google Docs shows English letters instead of Punjabi.
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.
103 mappings
Click a letter to copy the Unicode character. Click the key cap to copy the DrChatrik key.
05 · Known limits
Coverage in this converter
Checked against Padma, the open-source converter this mapping was taken from: 212 of 240 test conversions matched exactly. All 28 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. 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 DrChatrik 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: 212 of 240 test conversions matched Padma exactly. Each of the other 28 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.