Unicode to Chanakya Converter
Convert Unicode Hindi text into Chanakya (Walkman 901/905) font code for PageMaker, CorelDraw and press workflows.
How to Convert Unicode Text to Chanakya?
Add your Unicode Hindi text
Paste text copied from a website, Word or WhatsApp, or upload a .txt or .docx file directly.
Select your input and output font
Choose the Unicode font your text uses from the Input dropdown, and pick your Chanakya variant from the Output dropdown.
Convert to Chanakya
Click Convert to Chanakya, or turn on Auto convert to see the result update as you type.
Copy, download and apply the font
Copy the output or download as .DOC. Open it in PageMaker or Word, select all text, then apply the Walkman Chanakya Font. Your Hindi text will render correctly for print.
Questions about Unicode to Chanakya conversion
Chanakya (Walkman Chanakya) is a legacy Hindi font used by Indian newspapers, printing presses and DTP studios. Publications like Rajasthan Patrika use it for print layouts. It stores Hindi as ASCII characters, which works reliably in older software like PageMaker 7.0 and CorelDraw that cannot handle Unicode.
Modern Hindi text from Word, WhatsApp or a website is stored in Unicode, but Chanakya-based DTP software like PageMaker cannot read Unicode directly. Converting to Chanakya makes your text usable in that software for press layouts and print production.
Tools like Google Indic IME and other transliteration services produce standard Unicode text. Many newspapers and magazines still run their production process in Chanakya, so they ask contributors to submit articles, poems and stories in that format. Paste your Unicode draft here to get it ready for submission.
That is correct Chanakya encoding. Paste the output into Word or PageMaker, select all text, then change the font to Walkman Chanakya 901. The Hindi text will render correctly. You need the Chanakya font installed on your system first.
Walkman Chanakya 901 is standard for most use cases. The 901, 902 and 905 variants all use the same keyboard and character map, so the encoded text is identical. The only difference is glyph styling. Use whichever your press or client expects.
No. Paste a headline or an entire article, or upload a .txt or .docx file directly using the upload section below the tool. Everything runs locally in your browser, so there is no limit and no delay.
Completely. The conversion runs entirely in JavaScript inside your browser. Nothing you type is sent to any server or stored anywhere.