Harikrishna Font To Shruti Converter !!exclusive!!

The digitization of Indic scripts has led to a fragmented ecosystem of proprietary and Unicode-based fonts. In the Gujarati computing environment, the legacy Harikrishna font (based on ISCII encoding) remains widely used in older documents, while the Shruti font (Unicode-compliant) has become the modern standard. This paper presents the design and implementation of a rule-based converter that maps the non-standard encoding of Harikrishna to the standard UTF-8 representation of Shruti. We discuss the technical challenges of phonetic mapping, conjunct handling, and positional glyph variants. Experimental results show an accuracy of 98.7% on clean legacy documents. The converter serves as a critical tool for digital archivists, publishers, and linguists working with Gujarati text.

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