Bijoy to Unicode & Unicode to Bijoy Converter

Bijoy to Unicode and Unicode to Bijoy: what the converter does

Bijoy and Unicode are two ways of storing Bangla text. Unicode gives every Bangla letter, kar and sign its own code in the range U+0980 to U+09FF, so the text reads as Bangla in any app with any Unicode Bangla font. Bijoy fonts such as SutonnyMJ work differently: they draw Bangla shapes on the codes of English letters and symbols. The stored text is really Avwg, and it only looks like আমি while the font is SutonnyMJ.

This page converts in both directions. Bijoy to Unicode is for text typed with the Bijoy keyboard that you want to post online, email, search or keep in a database. Unicode to Bijoy is for text typed with Avro, Gboard or any Unicode keyboard that has to go into a print layout, a press file or an office template built on SutonnyMJ.

Why converted text shows boxes or broken letters

Three things cause almost every complaint.

• Wrong font on Bijoy text. Bijoy output set in Arial, Calibri or a Unicode Bangla font shows English letters and symbols. Select the text and choose SutonnyMJ.
• Wrong font on Unicode text. Unicode Bangla set in SutonnyMJ shows boxes, because SutonnyMJ has no shapes at the Unicode Bangla codes. Use a Unicode font such as Kalpurush, SolaimanLipi, Nikosh or Noto Sans Bengali.
• Letters in the wrong order. In Bijoy the kars ি, ে and ৈ are typed before the consonant, ো and ৌ are typed in two halves around it, and reph is typed after the letter it sits on. Unicode stores all of these after the consonant, and reph before it. A converter that only swaps codes leaves the kar on the wrong letter. This tool moves them: wµ becomes ক্রি and KΩx becomes কর্ত্রী.

How to use Bijoy output in Word or Photoshop

Choose Unicode → Bijoy, paste your Bangla text and press Copy result. In Microsoft Word, paste, select the pasted text and set the font to SutonnyMJ. In Photoshop, Illustrator or CorelDRAW, create the text box, set its font to SutonnyMJ first, then paste. The Bijoy output only looks right in a Bijoy font. If it is still English letters, the font has not been applied to that text, or SutonnyMJ is not installed on the computer.

Keep English words, email addresses and web links in a separate font. SutonnyMJ has no English letters, so anything left in English turns into Bangla shapes. The tool counts the English letters it found and tells you. Bangla digits come out as the digit keys 0 to 9, which SutonnyMJ draws as Bangla numerals.

A few conjuncts (ল্ল, প্ল, ব্ল, গ্ল, শ্ল) use a code that browsers treat as an invisible soft hyphen. You will not see it in the result box, but it is copied with the text and shows as the la-phala in SutonnyMJ. Use the Copy button rather than retyping.

বিজয় থেকে ইউনিকোড কীভাবে করবেন

বিজয়ে টাইপ করা লেখা কপি করুন, উপরে “Bijoy → Unicode” বেছে নিয়ে বক্সে পেস্ট করুন। নিচের বক্সে ইউনিকোড লেখা চলে আসবে। এই লেখা ফেসবুক, ইমেইল, ওয়েবসাইট বা মোবাইলে সরাসরি পড়া যায়, আলাদা ফন্ট লাগে না।

ইউনিকোড থেকে বিজয়: Word ও Photoshop এ

অভ্র বা মোবাইলে লেখা বাংলা পেস্ট করে “Unicode → Bijoy” বেছে নিন, তারপর Copy result চাপুন। Word বা Photoshop এ পেস্ট করে ফন্ট SutonnyMJ করে দিন। ফন্ট না বদলালে লেখাটা ইংরেজি অক্ষরের মতো দেখাবে, এটা ভুল না।

What is not supported

• Other font families. The table is the SutonnyMJ (Bijoy 2000) one. Fonts from other systems, for example Boishakhi, Bongshi or BornoSoft, use different codes and will come out wrong.
• Rare conjuncts. About 190 conjuncts are covered, plus reph, ya-phala and ra-phala on any of them. A conjunct outside the table is written with a visible hasant and listed under the result, not guessed.
• English mixed into Bijoy text. Going from Bijoy to Unicode, every English letter is read as a Bangla glyph, because the file itself does not say which words were English. Convert Bangla passages only.
• A few shared codes. Bijoy uses the codes of the dash, the curly quotes and symbols such as | \ ^ ~ & for Bangla shapes. Straight punctuation survives; these symbols may not.
• Files and formatting. This converts plain text. It does not open .doc or .pdf files and does not keep bold, tables or font sizes.

Converting Unicode to Bijoy and back returns the same text for everything in the table. One spelling detail: য়, ড় and ঢ় each have two equivalent Unicode spellings, and the result always uses the single-letter one.

The glyph table follows the open-source poriborton (OpenBangla) and bondhon (BanglaKit) projects, both MIT licensed. Related tools: Bangla typing test and Bangla date converter.