Unicode to Krutidev Converter (Mangal to Kruti Dev)

By the MuftTools teamUpdated October 2026How we check

When you still need Krutidev

Unicode has replaced Kruti Dev for most Hindi writing, but the old font has not disappeared. Many offices, printing presses and court typists keep years of forms, registers and letter formats in Kruti Dev 010. Some DTP and design setups still expect Krutidev text, and some people simply prefer to finish a document in the font they have always used. When the new text you need (from a website, a WhatsApp message, an email or a Mangal document) is in Unicode, it has to be converted before it fits into those files.

Typing it again by hand is slow and invites mistakes. This page converts it instantly. Mangal is not a separate encoding: it is one of the fonts that show Unicode Hindi, so "Mangal to Kruti Dev" and "Unicode to Krutidev" are the same job.

Converting Unicode to Krutidev step by step

1. The direction is already set to Unicode → Krutidev.
2. Paste your Hindi. The Krutidev text appears in the right-hand box, with line breaks kept.
3. Press Download Word file for a .docx already set in Kruti Dev 010, or Copy text and paste it into your own document. If you paste it, select the text and choose Kruti Dev 010 from the font list.
4. For a full document, open the .docx. Only the Hindi text is changed, so English words, tables and headings are left alone.

Why Krutidev conversion needs care

Krutidev does not store letters in reading order. It stores the order in which a typist pressed the keys of a Remington-style typewriter. Three things change:

• The short i matra (ि) moves in front of its letter: किताब becomes fdrkc, and in स्थिति it goes in front of the whole cluster: fLFkfr.
• The reph moves after its letter and matras: धर्म becomes /keZ, कीर्ति becomes dhfrZ.
• Joined letters get their own glyphs where the font has them, such as क्र, द्ध, द्य and ट्र, so they print the way a typist would have typed them.

A simple find-and-replace gets these wrong. This converter handles them, and you can press ⇄ Swap to turn the result back into Unicode and compare it with your original.

Before you send a Krutidev file

• The person opening the file needs Kruti Dev 010 installed, or they will see English letters. If you are not sure, send a PDF made from your Word file instead.
• Krutidev cannot hold every Unicode character. Rare letters and symbols outside the Hindi typewriter set may not have a Kruti Dev glyph, so check names and special terms.
• For online forms, exam portals, websites and messages, keep the Unicode version. Government typing tests also use Unicode: the SSC CHSL 2026 notice, for example, says Hindi typists must use the Mangal font.

Need the other direction, from old Krutidev files to Unicode? Use the main Krutidev to Unicode converter. Everything is converted inside your browser, and nothing you paste or open is uploaded.

Need more options? Open the full Krutidev to Unicode Converter.