Odia font converter
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଫଣ୍ଟ ରୂପାନ୍ତରକ
Turn Odia typed in the older Akruti and Sreelipi fonts into Unicode text that works everywhere — websites, phones, search, email — or convert Unicode back for old DTP files.
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Why convert?
Akruti and Sreelipi are typing systems from before Odia had wide Unicode support. They store Odia shapes in the slots of Latin letters, so the text only looks right with that font installed — elsewhere ଓଡ଼ିଶା typed in Akruti shows as IWÿògû, and it cannot be searched or read by phones and screen readers. Unicode stores the real Odia letters.
Tips
- Copy the text straight from the Word or PageMaker file; keep each font's text separate.
- English words and numbers typed in an ordinary font inside the same paragraph will be converted as if they were Odia — convert them separately.
- Check names and rare conjuncts by eye: about 1 line in 20 in our tests needed a small manual fix (for example ଐ).
- To type new Odia text, use the Odia typing tool.
Conversion tables and method: Lipika by Prabir Kumar Das (MIT licence), ported to run in the browser and checked line-for-line against the original on 1,500 lines of Odia text.