Nudi to Unicode
About the project

Keeping Kannada Readable Everywhere

Nudi to Unicode exists because Kannada typed in legacy Nudi and Baraha fonts shouldn't stay trapped as unreadable ASCII gibberish. Convert Kannada Nudi and Baraha ASCII text to Unicode — free, instant, in your browser.

About this site: Nudi to Unicode is an independent, free utility. Every conversion runs entirely in your browser — we never see, store, or transmit the text you paste.

Our team

Who We Are / About Us

A small group of engineers, linguists, and designers who believe technology should preserve culture, not overwrite it. We operate from our central hub where collaboration meets deep technical expertise.

Our diverse engineering team collaborating in a bright, modern glass-walled workspace

Editorial Team

Kannada Localization Editors

The editorial team maintains the mapping tables and tests the converter against real Nudi and Baraha documents.

  • Kannada Unicode
  • Nudi & Baraha

Engineering Team

Product & Accessibility

Builds the calculation engine and keeps the site fast, accessible, and privacy-first across every device.

  • Web Performance
  • WCAG AA
Our story

How We Started

Nudi to Unicode began as a frustration: most online converters handed you a jumbled output with no explanation, no support for edge cases, and pages buried in ads. We wanted the exact opposite.

What started as one clean script grew into a comprehensive tool capable of handling decades of legacy Kannada encodings, built to respect your privacy with zero server-side processing.

Our mission

What We Do / Our Services

We turn established encoding algorithms into fast, accurate tools you can use in seconds — then wrap them in plain-English explanations of what the result actually means.

We provide completely free, client-side conversion services ensuring zero data retention, prioritizing speed, accessibility, and flawless Unicode compliance for the modern web.

What we stand for

Our principles

Exact mappings, not guesses

Every glyph comes straight from the published Nudi and Baraha key map — no lossy shortcuts or approximations.

Built on the Unicode standard

Output targets the official Kannada Unicode block, so your text renders on any device, in any app — for good.

No account, no upload

The converter runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you paste is sent to a server, stored, or used to identify you.

Server-rendered for speed

Guides and references ship as crawlable static HTML; the interactive converter hydrates on top without reloading the page.

Plain about limits

We say where conversion gets tricky — rare conjuncts, mixed scripts, non-standard fonts — instead of pretending one tool fits every file.

Open & auditable

The mappings and the assumptions are all visible. Check the Unicode output against your own and verify every character.

Trusted source statement

Our credibility statement

We earn trust the boring way: by showing our mapping tables, citing recognised Unicode consortium standards, and being completely transparent about edge cases.

You can read the methodology behind every conversion mapping in our guides and cross-check the Unicode output yourself. We do not store your data.

Documented mappings

Every Nudi and Baraha key → Unicode mapping is published and inspectable — no hidden lookup tables.

Official Unicode standard

Output targets the official Kannada Unicode block (U+0C80–U+0CFF), so it renders anywhere — not a private font hack.

Honest about edge cases

We flag rare conjuncts, ambiguous glyphs and mixed scripts instead of pretending every input round-trips perfectly.

Legal Entity

Parent Company

Indic Web Technologies, LLC

Nudi to Unicode is proudly developed and maintained by Indic Web Technologies, a registered business entity dedicated to building accessible, high-performance web utilities for South Asian languages. We are fully self-funded and independent.

Headquarters & Mailing Address:
Indic Web Technologies, LLC
1200 Tech Boulevard, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94107
United States
Community Trust

What People Are Saying

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Finally, a converter that actually handles Baraha long vowels correctly without breaking conjuncts. It's saved our publishing team hours of manual fixes every week.

SP
Suresh PatilDTP Operator
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The fact that it processes everything locally in my browser gives me the confidence to use it for sensitive client documents. Fast, secure, and beautiful.

AK
Ananya K.Freelance Translator
Roadmap

What’s coming next

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