“એક સમયે, એક નાનકડા ગામમાં...” (Once upon a time, in a small village...)

: You try to copy-paste it into an email or a modern website, and it appears as a mess of English letters and symbols. : You use an online converter—like those found on Odia Unicode Converter

Even after conversion, Word shows "Harikrishna" as the font name. Solution: Select all text and manually change the font to Shruti. Conversion changes encoding, not the font tag.

Note: “Harikrishna” here refers to a legacy, non-Unicode Kannada font encoding commonly used in older documents. Shruti refers to the Unicode Kannada font family (often used by Windows and modern systems). The goal is to convert from legacy encoding (font-encoded glyph mapping) to standard Unicode code points so text is interoperable, searchable, and accessible.