If your Armenian document or text looks something like гۻñ»Ý, it was written in the old ArmSCII (ANSI) encoding, in a font like Arial Armenian or Arial LatArm, using KDWin or a similar tool. Convert it into Unicode Armenian, the kind that works on any device.
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Paste the old text on the left. The Unicode appears on the right as you type.
ArmSCII-8 is the Armenian encoding people used before Unicode. Fonts from that era drew Armenian letters in slots meant for Latin ones, so the file stores гۻñ»Ý and only looks like Հայերեն while that one font is applied. Change the font, send the file to a colleague, or open it on a newer computer, and it falls apart.
Nearly every Armenian document of that era works this way. KDWin typed it in Armenian Phonetic mode, and the Arial and Times fonts of the day were built around it. Hence the familiar story: the file opened fine on one office computer and arrived as nonsense on the next.
The converter swaps every character for its Unicode equivalent. It knows two tables: the ANSI one those fonts used, and the ArmSCII-8 standard (AST 34.005) that old text files were saved in. What comes out is real Armenian, readable in any font, any app, any browser. You will never need the old font again.
Everything runs on this page. Nothing you type, paste or drop is uploaded anywhere.
Because it was typed with a pre-Unicode font that stored Armenian shapes on Latin codes. The letters you see are the real stored characters. The Armenian look lived only in the font.
Word .docx, Excel .xlsx and plain .txt files convert whole, right in the browser. Formatting, images and tables come through untouched, because only the letters are rewritten.
Some legacy fonts used their own letter mappings instead of the ArmSCII-8 standard. Text typed with those converts partially or not at all. Send us a sample and we will take a look.
Characters in the extended range that have no assignment in the ArmSCII-8 table. They are left exactly as they were, never dropped.
Yes. Switch the direction above the fields. Useful when an old system or template still expects a legacy font.
No. The conversion table is part of this page and runs on your computer. Text and files never leave your browser.
