Kruti Dev to Preeti ConverterBeta
For documents that will be set in the Preeti font.
Paste Kruti Dev text on the left and get Preeti code on the right, previewed in the Preeti font.
Some characters have no Preeti equivalent and were left as-is.
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Works with text in Kruti Dev 010, 011, 012, 014, 016 and 055, which share one keyboard. From a Word file, Word’s curly quotes and dashes and the Hindi digits of Kruti Dev 055 are read too. Kruti Dev 020 has another layout: use DevLys 020 to Unicode.
Please review the output. Rare characters in old documents may differ. Nothing you type is uploaded. conversion runs in your browser.
Need the other direction? Preeti to Kruti Dev Converter
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Convert a document
Upload a Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx, .csv) or text (.txt) file typed in Kruti Dev. Only the Kruti Dev text is converted. Bold, colours, tables, numbers, formulas and the rest of the formatting stay exactly as they are.
Your file never leaves your computer.
How to use
- Copy the Kruti Dev text that has to be set in Preeti.
- Paste it into the Kruti Dev box. The Preeti code appears on the right.
- Press Copy Preeti code, paste into Word and set the Kruti Dev conversion to Preeti.
Tip:Check the preview for any character left unchanged: it has no Preeti key, and you may want to retype that word.
Worked examples
Real phrases run through this converter, so you can compare them with your own text and see what the page does before you paste anything.
A short phrase
- Kruti Dev
usiky ljdkj- Preeti
g]kfn ;/sf/
The short i sign is typed before its letter in the old font
- Kruti Dev
f'k{kk eU=ky;- Preeti
lzIff dGqfno
A single word
- Kruti Dev
dkBekMkSa- Preeti
sf7df8f}+
Letters that join into one shape
- Kruti Dev
fo|kFkhZ j f'k{kd- Preeti
ljBfyL{ / lzIfs
A whole sentence with its full stop
- Kruti Dev
e usikyh gq¡A- Preeti
d g]kfnL x'F.
Each example comes from this converter's own rules and is checked in both directions every time the site is built. A phrase that fails the check is left out.
Good to know
- This font has no key for these letters and signs: ऌ ॥. They are left unchanged and flagged under the output box, and Word draws them in another font.
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Frequently asked questions
Why does it say Beta?
Is the text translated into Nepali?
How do I see the Preeti text as letters?
Does my document leave my computer?
Why a font change is not enough
Kruti Dev and Preeti are both legacy Devanagari fonts, built on two different keyboards. Almost no letter sits on the same key in both. usiky is नेपाल in Kruti Dev, but in Preeti the same word is g]kfn. Switch the font in Word and you get a page of wrong letters.
This page reads the Kruti Dev keys as Devanagari, then types the words out again on the Preeti keyboard, with the i-matra and the reph in the places Preeti draws them. deZpkjh becomes sd{rf/L, which is कर्मचारी in either font.
Digits and punctuation
Preeti has no plain 0 to 9, because those keys are letters, so digits are written with the Preeti digit keys and still read as Devanagari digits. A few characters have no Preeti key at all, such as ळ. They are left as they were and a note appears under the box.
The reverse of this page is Preeti to Kruti Dev. For Unicode output, use Kruti Dev to Unicode.