Bijoy to Unicode Converter | বিজয় থেকে ইউনিকোড

The Bijoy to Unicode converter (বিজয় টু ইউনিকোড) turns text typed with the Bijoy keyboard — usually in the SutonnyMJ font — into standard Unicode Bangla that displays correctly everywhere: websites, Facebook, email and mobile devices.

Bangladesh's newspapers, offices and printing houses have decades of documents written in Bijoy. Because Bijoy is ANSI-based rather than Unicode-based, that text turns into unreadable characters like Avwg evsjvq the moment it is pasted online. This tool fixes that in one step — accurately, so you do not end up with broken conjuncts or missing letters the way many converters do.

1. Copy your Bijoy text (in the SutonnyMJ font) from MS Word or anywhere else.
2. Paste it into the Bijoy (SutonnyMJ) box above — the conversion happens immediately, with no button to press.
3. Take the Unicode result from the box on the right by clicking the blue Copy button.
4. If any conjunct letter looks broken, press the Fix Broken Words button.

Pasting into the wrong box does not matter — the tool recognises Unicode text and moves it to the correct side for you.

From the 1990s until the early 2010s, almost all Bangla writing in Bangladesh was done on the Bijoy keyboard. That is why Bijoy text still turns up from:

• Old MS Word and PageMaker files — office records, reports, and book or magazine manuscripts.
• Newspaper archives — old copy typed in the press, which has to be in Unicode before it can go on a website.
• Government and official paperwork — notices, letters and formatted templates.
• DTP and publishing files — composed books, leaflets and poster text.

This text looks fine on a computer as long as the SutonnyMJ font is installed. But paste it into Facebook, a website or a phone and it breaks — because that font is not there, and the bytes are then read as English letters instead.

Once it is Unicode, the text displays correctly everywhere without needing any font:

• Facebook, YouTube and social media — posts, comments and captions.
• Websites and blogs — without Unicode, Google cannot even read your Bangla text, so this is essential for SEO.
• Email and mobile — Bangla Unicode is built into both Android and iPhone.
• Google Docs, Sheets and online forms — Bijoy text does not work in these; Unicode does.

To check how long the text is, use the Word & Character Counter, and to check the spelling use the Bangla Spell Checker.

In Bijoy's ANSI mapping some conjunct letters are built from several bytes, and those bytes are not always arranged the same way. So after conversion a word or two may come out with its conjunct split apart — typically in words like যত্ন, রত্ন or উচ্ছ্বাস.

That is exactly what the Fix Broken Words button under the result box is for. Pressing it finds the known broken patterns and repairs them. How to use it:

• Read through the converted text once — pay particular attention to words containing conjuncts.
• If you spot something broken, press the button once.
• There is no need to press it repeatedly — it fixes a specific set of patterns, and pressing again gains you nothing.

Worth knowing: text written in a very old or different ANSI font (Boishakhi or Bornosoft, for example) does not match Bijoy's mapping. That text will not convert correctly with this tool — it needs a mapping of its own.

In Bangla Unicode, ড়, ঢ় and য় can be written two different ways — as a single character (U+09DC, for instance), or by joining two parts together (ড + ়). The two look absolutely identical, but to a computer they are different.

The result is odd: a word looks perfectly correct on screen, yet a search will not match it, or a spell checker flags it as wrong. In our conversion and spell checking, both sides are normalised to one form (NFC) before they are compared, so the problem does not arise here. If search or replace stops working after converting somewhere else, this is almost always the reason.

Beyond copy and paste, this tool has more for larger jobs:

• Open File — upload a .docx or .txt file directly. With Word files the conversion keeps the formatting, including bold, italic and tables, so you do not have to lay the whole document out again.
• .doc and .txt download — take the result straight out as a file.
• Recent work — your last few conversions are kept in your browser, so nothing is lost if you close the tab by accident.
• Privacy — the whole conversion happens in your browser. Your text is not sent to our server or anywhere else, so confidential documents are safe to convert here.

These three names get mixed up constantly, but they are not the same kind of thing:

So Avro and Unicode are not rivals — when you type in Avro, what you get is Unicode. That means if you want to take Avro-typed text into Bijoy, use Unicode to Bijoy or Avro to Bijoy. To type in Unicode, there is the online Avro keyboard and the Unicode Editor. And if you do not know which direction you need, paste into the Bangla Converter homepage and the tool works it out itself.

Older books, official documents and newspaper archives across Bangladesh were written with the Bijoy keyboard. Today the web runs on Unicode, and most younger writers use Avro, which produces Unicode. Re-typing old Bijoy content by hand would take hours; converting it takes seconds. Editors, bloggers and webmasters use this tool to bring legacy Bangla content onto the web without retyping a single word.

Need the opposite direction for print work? Use the Unicode to Bijoy converter, or convert Avro-typed text to Bijoy directly.