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DevLys to Unicode Converter

Paste DevLys 010 text on the left and get Unicode Hindi on the right, with matra order and conjuncts handled properly. Nothing is uploaded.

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Please review the output. Matra order and the common conjuncts (क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ, श्र) are handled, but rare characters in very old documents may still differ. Nothing you type is uploaded. This page converts entirely inside your browser.

Need the other direction? Unicode to DevLys Converter

How to use

  1. Open your DevLys document and copy the Hindi text.
  2. Paste it into the DevLys box. The Unicode appears as you paste.
  3. Press Copy text, or Download .docx for a Word file with the font set.

Tip:Not sure the file is DevLys and not Kruti Dev? The two share one keyboard layout, so either converter gives the same Hindi.

Frequently asked questions

Is the DevLys to Unicode converter free?
Yes. No signup, no character limit, no paid tier. The page is static and the conversion runs in your browser, so there is nothing to charge for.
Is DevLys 010 the same as Kruti Dev 010?
They are different fonts that share a keyboard layout. Every key this converter uses draws the same Hindi letter in both - that was checked by comparing the two font files glyph by glyph, not assumed. So a DevLys document and a Kruti Dev document containing the same keystrokes hold the same Hindi, even though the letterforms on screen differ slightly.
Then why was this page "coming soon" for so long?
Because "almost the same" is not good enough for a converter. The two fonts genuinely do differ in one block of character codes. The page went live only once it was confirmed that the conversion table never touches that block, so the overlap it relies on is real rather than approximate.
Does my text get uploaded anywhere?
No. The whole engine is JavaScript running inside your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, so confidential notings and draft orders never leave your machine. Once the page has loaded you can disconnect from the internet and it still works.
Why is the short-i matra (ि) in a different place than in my DevLys file?
Because that is correct. DevLys stores glyphs in visual order, so the short-i sign is typed before its consonant. Unicode stores them in logical order, where the sign belongs after. So fd becomes कि. Converters that skip this step produce text that looks right but breaks search, sorting and spell-check.
What happens to English words, numbers and dates?
Dates, numbers, percentages, URLs and email addresses are always left alone, and common English words are detected and preserved. Because a legacy font stores Hindi as plain ASCII, an unusual proper noun can still be converted by mistake - the checkbox under the panels turns the whole behaviour off.
Can I convert Unicode back into DevLys?
Yes. Each page converts in one fixed direction, so use the Unicode to DevLys converter for the reverse. There is a link under the boxes too. That page also accepts Hindi typed on a phone or the Windows keypad, since keypad Hindi is already Unicode.

What this converter does

DevLys is not an encoding. It is a font whose glyphs sit on ASCII codepoints, which is why a DevLys document opened on a machine without the font shows gibberish like Hkkjr instead of भारत. Turning it into Unicode is not a matter of swapping one letter for another - the characters have to be reordered, because the two systems store Hindi differently.

Paste on the left and the Unicode appears on the right as you type. No Convert button to hunt for, no advertisement between you and the text box, and no upload.

DevLys and Kruti Dev: close, and checked

DevLys 010 and Kruti Dev 010 share a keyboard layout. That is genuinely useful - it means two decades of Hindi DTP work is interchangeable at the keystroke level - but it is also the assumption that quietly breaks most converters, because the two fonts are not identical everywhere.

So it was verified rather than assumed. Every character code this converter uses was read out of both font files and compared: advance width, contour count and bounding box. All of them match. The two fonts do diverge in one block of character codes, and the conversion table deliberately does not use any code in that block. That is why this page is live and why the Chanakya pages are not.

What usually goes wrong elsewhere

  • The short-i matra. In DevLys you type the ि before its consonant, because that is where it is drawn. Unicode wants it after. Copy the visual order straight across and you get text that renders acceptably in some fonts but fails search, sorting, spell-check and screen readers.
  • The reph. The र् that rides above a letter is typed after its syllable, so कर्म is keyed as deZ. It has to be moved to the front of the cluster, and moved before the i-matra is repositioned, or words like कीर्ति come out scrambled.
  • Split vowel signs. DevLys builds ो from an aa-matra plus an e-matra, so dks has to be recomposed into को rather than left as two marks.

Who needs this

DevLys turns up wherever Hindi DTP was done in the 1990s and 2000s: press and publishing files, school and college records, tender documents, old court and municipal paperwork. Modern portals, databases and e-governance systems all expect Unicode, so every time one of those files has to go into a new system, somebody has to convert it.

For the other direction use Unicode to DevLys, and DevLys to Mangal shows the result in the Mangal font most government forms ask for. If your document is actually Kruti Dev, Kruti Dev to Unicode is the page you want.