- Why does my Hindi turn into English letters when I copy it?
- Because it was never Hindi in the file. Kruti Dev puts Devanagari shapes at English letter positions, so the stored text really is jktLFkku — only the Kruti Dev font makes it look like राजस्थान. Anywhere that font is not installed, including every online form, you get the letters back.
- Can I just swap the letters one by one?
- No, and this is why most quick converters produce wrong Hindi. The short इ matra is stored before its consonant and has to move after it; a reph is stored after the cluster and has to move in front. Without that reordering the letters are right and the words are unreadable.
- Which version should I pick, 010 or 011?
- 010 is the common one and the default. The two differ in only four glyph positions, all affecting श and ष — so if those two letters come out swapped, switch to 011 and convert again.
- What does 'clean output for online forms' do?
- The mapping adds an invisible joiner after each half letter, which is technically correct. They survive a copy-and-paste, and a portal that compares a name character by character can reject a match over them. Cleaning removes them; the Hindi looks identical.
- Does it work for DevLys and other old fonts?
- DevLys 010 uses the same layout as Kruti Dev 010, so it converts correctly. Other legacy fonts — Chanakya, Shusha, Shree Lipi — use different layouts and will come out wrong. Any character the mapping does not recognise is listed under the output rather than quietly changed.
- Is my text uploaded anywhere?
- No. The conversion runs in your browser on this device. There is no API behind it, so the tool keeps working with the internet disconnected once the page has loaded.
