Paste Chanakya (Yogesh) Hindi text and get portable Unicode instantly — ready for the web, WhatsApp, and modern Word.
Chanakya (Yogesh) is a legacy Devanagari font from the PageMaker era, common in Indian print shops that produced newspapers, invitations, and government forms. Chanakya text is ASCII-encoded: each keystroke prints a Devanagari glyph, but the underlying character is a Latin letter. Modern web browsers, WhatsApp, and email clients see only the Latin â so pasted Chanakya text appears as gibberish.
This converter maps every Chanakya character to its correct Unicode Devanagari equivalent, so the output renders identically on any device without any font install.
Copy Chanakya-encoded Hindi from your PageMaker file, Word document, or archive.
Unicode output appears as you type — the engine handles conjuncts and matras automatically.
Paste the Unicode text into any app, share via WhatsApp, or export as .txt / .docx.
Unicode is the global standard for text. Any device â Windows, Mac, iOS, Android â renders Unicode Devanagari natively with built-in fonts like Mangal, Aparajita, or Nirmala UI. Once your Chanakya text is Unicode, it becomes portable across email, web, Google Docs, WhatsApp, and any application, without asking recipients to install a special font.
Government portals, exam bodies, and modern publishing workflows all now expect Unicode input.
If you need the reverse for print-layout work, use Unicode to Chanakya. To move between Indian office formats directly, our Chanakya to KrutiDev tool skips the Unicode round-trip.
The standard Chanakya (Yogesh) map — the same one used in most PageMaker workflows across India.
Yes — Unicode Devanagari renders natively on every modern OS with built-in Hindi fonts. No installation needed.
The core map covers common encodings. Rare custom variants may need a light manual pass on unusual conjuncts.