About the Kantipur to Unicode Converter

Kantipur is a legacy Nepali font closely related to Preeti but with its own distinct character mapping, historically common in Nepali newspaper archives, publishing houses, and some office documents. Like Preeti, text set in Kantipur is really just remapped Latin characters — readable Devanagari only when the Kantipur font is applied, and scrambled Roman letters otherwise.

Exact conversion, not a guess

This tool uses Kantipur's own specific character-mapping and glyph-reordering table (which differs from Preeti's in a number of key mappings, so a Preeti converter cannot be reliably substituted for Kantipur text), so the result is a faithful decode of the original intended Devanagari, not an approximation.

When you'd need this

• Digitizing old Nepali news archives or publishing content stored in Kantipur font
• Making Kantipur-encoded office documents searchable and portable across modern systems
• Preparing Kantipur text for a modern CMS, database, or search-indexed website

Not sure which legacy font your document uses? Try pasting a sample into this converter and check if the output looks correct — if it doesn't, try Preeti to Unicode or PCS Nepali to Unicode instead, since each legacy font needs its own specific mapping.