Convert Hindi Unicode (Mangal) text to Walkman Chanakya 901, 902, or 905 encoding for newspapers, DTP, and print — or reverse Chanakya back to Unicode for the web.
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Only relevant for Unicode → Chanakya.
⚠ This tool is not affiliated with or endorsed by the owners of Walkman Chanakya. You must have a licensed copy of Walkman Chanakya installed to view the converted output correctly.
Drop your Hindi Unicode (Mangal) text into the input box on the left — straight from a website, WhatsApp, or Word.
Choose your Chanakya version (901 is standard for most press shops) and the conversion direction. Leave the defaults to go Unicode → Chanakya.
Copy the converted output and paste it into PageMaker, CorelDraw, or Word with the Walkman Chanakya font applied to see correct Hindi.
| Scenario | Calculation | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi news article → Chanakya (Document A) | Paste a Mangal-encoded news article, keep Unicode → Chanakya, choose version 901. | Press-ready Chanakya text you paste straight into the PageMaker DTP layout. |
| Rajbhasha circular → Chanakya 901 (Publication B) | Copy a government Hindi circular from Word and convert it with version 901. | Clean Chanakya 901 output for the office printer and the letterhead template. |
| Wedding card text → Chanakya (Document C) | Type the invitation wording in Unicode, convert, then paste into CorelDraw. | A stylised Chanakya headline ready to drop into the card artwork. |
| Old Chanakya archive → Unicode (Publication D) | Paste legacy Chanakya press copy and switch the direction to Chanakya → Unicode. | Standard Mangal Unicode you can publish to the website or send on WhatsApp. |
| Marathi text → Chanakya (Document E) | Paste Marathi Unicode (same Devanagari script) and convert with version 901. | Chanakya-encoded Marathi that slots into the existing print workflow. |
| Sanskrit shloka → Chanakya (Document F) | Paste a Unicode shloka with conjuncts like क्ष and त्र, convert with 901. | Chanakya output with conjuncts and रेफ placed correctly for typesetting. |
| Hindi Char | Unicode Point | Chanakya Key | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| अ | U+0905 | v | Independent vowel “a” |
| आ | U+0906 | vk | Independent vowel “aa” |
| इ | U+0907 | b | Independent vowel “i” |
| ई | U+0908 | bZ | Independent vowel “ii” |
| उ | U+0909 | m | Independent vowel “u” |
| क | U+0915 | d | Consonant “ka” |
| ख | U+0916 | [k | Consonant “kha” |
| ग | U+0917 | x | Consonant “ga” |
| च | U+091A | p | Consonant “cha” |
| ज | U+091C | t | Consonant “ja” |
| त | U+0924 | r | Consonant “ta” |
| द | U+0926 | n | Consonant “da” |
| न | U+0928 | u | Consonant “na” |
| प | U+092A | i | Consonant “pa” |
| म | U+092E | e | Consonant “ma” |
| र | U+0930 | j | Consonant “ra” (forms रेफ when half) |
| ् | U+094D | ~ | Virama / halant — joins consonants |
| ं | U+0902 | a | Anusvara — nasalisation |
| ः | U+0903 | % | Visarga |
| । | U+0964 | A | Danda — full stop |
Chanakya is a legacy 8-bit Devanagari font that maps each Hindi glyph onto a Roman keyboard key rather than a Unicode code point. North Indian newspapers and DTP shops standardised on it decades ago for PageMaker and CorelDraw, so a huge volume of press templates and archives still depend on Chanakya encoding.
The converter maps each Devanagari Unicode character to its Chanakya key sequence, matching conjuncts like क्ष and त्र before single letters. It then reorders the pre-base ि vowel sign to sit before its consonant and moves the रेफ to after the cluster, which is what makes the output display correctly once the Chanakya font is applied.
All three share an identical keyboard layout, so converted text works in any of them. The differences are purely stylistic — slightly updated glyph shapes in the newer builds. If you do not know which version your print shop uses, choose 901, the most widely installed standard.
That is expected. Chanakya output is ASCII — letters, symbols, and punctuation that only render as Hindi when the Walkman Chanakya font is applied to the text. Paste the output into a document, select it, and set the font to Walkman Chanakya to see proper Devanagari.
Yes. Switch the direction to “Chanakya → Unicode (Mangal)” and paste your Chanakya ASCII text. The tool reverses the mapping — including the ि and रेफ reordering — so you get standard Unicode that works on websites, in WhatsApp, and in modern Word documents.
Yes. Marathi, Sanskrit, and Nepali all use the Devanagari script, so the same Unicode-to-Chanakya mapping applies. Conjunct-heavy Sanskrit benefits especially from the conjunct-aware matching and रेफ repositioning.
No. This is an independent utility and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the owners of Walkman Chanakya or the Chanakya font. You must obtain a licensed copy of the font through lawful means to view the converted output.
Chanakya is most common in print and design tools such as Adobe PageMaker, CorelDraw, and QuarkXPress, and it is also applied to text in Microsoft Word for legacy layouts. Anywhere a non-Unicode Devanagari font is installed, Chanakya-encoded text will render correctly.