Unicode → Saral Converter

Unicode Gujarati is the modern standard — each Gujarati character has a dedicated code point. Saral, by contrast, is an ASCII font — Gujarati glyphs are layered on top of Latin keys.

Many Punjab government workflows, Gujarati DTP houses and academic publishing pipelines, and older typing-cert institutions still operate in Saral. Converting Unicode back to Saral lets you produce content for those workflows.

The converter inverts the canonical SaralSoft TTF cmap mapping with longest-match-first to disambiguate multi-character Anmol sequences.

• Convert in chunks. Up to 5,000 characters per pass works best. Long pastes from PDFs sometimes contain hidden formatting that confuses any converter — break the text into paragraphs.
• Proofread conjuncts. Gujarati conjuncts and special letters like ਫ਼, ਖ਼, ਗ਼, ਜ਼ are encoded as specific characters (& ^ Z z) in Saral. Skim the output for visibly broken stacks and fix manually.
• Watch for diacritics. Anuswar (ं), chandrabindu (ँ), and visarg (ः) are reliably converted, but if your source uses non-standard glyph mappings (LMG-Saral, LMG-Saral2, OpenLMG-Saral (all share most of their mapping with Saral)), output may need touch-up.
• Numerals stay as-is. ASCII digits (0-9) and Devanagari digits (० १ २ ३) pass through unchanged. If you need to convert digit forms, do it manually.
• For exam answer scripts: never use a converter as a final layer. Practise typing in the actual format the exam ships (Kruti Dev for SSC CHSL Hindi, Mangal/InScript for DSSSB and most state govt). The TypeForExam practice pages cover both.