About
A small set of converters for Nepali text, built to run entirely in the browser.
Why this exists
Nepal's transition from Preeti to Unicode is decades old and still unfinished. Government offices, print shops, schools and newspapers hold an enormous amount of text in a font-dependent encoding, while everything new — websites, phones, search, accessibility tools — expects Unicode. Anyone working across both worlds needs to move text between them regularly, and often has to type Nepali without a Nepali keyboard on top of that.
How the conversion works
Preeti and Unicode both store Devanagari, but they order it differently. Unicode uses logical order: consonant first, then its vowel sign. Preeti uses the order the letters are drawn, because it was designed around a typewriter keyboard.
That difference is where naive character-by-character converters fail. Three cases account for most of it. The i-matra is drawn to the left of its consonant, so कि is typed as matra-then-consonant. Reph — the र् that rides above a following consonant — is typed after the syllable it sits on. Conjuncts pair a half form with a full form.
These converters work syllable by syllable rather than character by character, which is what lets them handle all three. The Roman converter reads each word left to right, always taking the longest matching token, and falls back to whole-word spellings for words whose conventional romanisation the general rules would miss.
Known limits
Only Preeti is supported. Kantipur, Sagarmatha, PCS Nepali and other legacy Nepali fonts use different mappings and will not convert correctly. Some Preeti variants remap a handful of keys, so text from an unusual source may need spot corrections.
Roman Nepali has no single agreed spelling system, so the phonetic converter will not match every writer's habits. Both panes stay editable so anything that comes out wrong can be fixed before you copy it.
Privacy
The conversion tables and code ship as part of the page. Your text is never uploaded, stored or logged, and the tools keep working offline once the page has loaded. There are no accounts and no tracking of what you convert.