Nikosh Converter

About This Tool

The Nikosh Converter solves a common bottleneck in Bengali content workflows by translating text between Nikosh-encoded form and Unicode. It supports both directions, enabling migration of books, articles, CMS data, and digital archives to UTF‑8. The engine relies on a centralized, exact 1:1 mapping table and preserves punctuation, spacing, and line breaks during conversion. It does not render fonts or alter language content.
Conceptually, a mapping table defines exact code point correspondences; per-character lookups apply the mapping, followed by Unicode NFC normalization to ensure canonical form. Users choose the direction (Nikosh→Unicode or Unicode→Nikosh) and may enable batch processing or streaming inputs for large datasets. Output includes the converted text plus metrics such as characters processed and unmapped occurrences.
Use cases include bulk migrations, API integrations, and on-the-fly CMS pipelines. The tool provides diff reports and validation hooks to support quality control, making it suitable for libraries, publishers, and development teams that need reversible encoding with auditable results.
Core features include two-way conversion, direction selector, NFC normalization, chunked processing for large inputs, and optional diff reports. Exclusions include font metrics, layout rendering, OCR, and language translation.

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