Nepali Unicode Converter

What this converter does

For decades, Nepali typing across offices, print houses and newspapers ran on legacy fonts such as Preeti, Kantipur and PCS Nepali. These fonts never carried real Devanagari — they parked Nepali glyphs inside Latin keyboard slots. Open such a file on a machine that lacks the font and you are met with strings like g]kfn where नेपाल should be.

Unicode ends that headache. Every Devanagari character has its own dedicated code point, so the text reads correctly everywhere — browsers, phones, Word, email and social platforms — without bundling a font alongside it. This tool reads through whatever you paste, replaces each legacy glyph with its true Unicode equivalent, and reapplies the Devanagari joining logic (half letters, matras and conjuncts) so the result comes out tidy.

Common reasons people use this page

• Modernising old Word or Excel files typed in Preeti for a new site or CMS
• Re-sharing Kantipur and other press clippings on social media
• Preparing bilingual drafts, affidavits or citizenship paperwork
• Moving legacy school records, notices and archives onto a current stack
• Getting Preeti content ready for Kokila, Mangal or any Unicode font

Frequently asked questions