HTML supports special characters such as a-grave "à" and e-acute "é", but they have to be specially encoded as "à" and "é". This Ansi2html utility will do it for you, translating all the special ANSI characters into their HTML equivalent, for a single document, a directory full of documents, or even a whole tree of documents (recurse into subdirectories).

 Download ansi2html-1.5.zip for Windows 95/98/NT/2000 (49kb)
 Download ansi2html-1.5.tar.gz for Unix (28kb)

The distribution for Windows 95/98/NT/2000 contains the ready-to-run ansi2html.exe program. No installation is necessary, just copy the program into a directory in your path, for example: "c:\windows\" or "c:\winnt\".

The distribution for Unix contains all the sources and a Makefile. No configuration is necessary, all you have to do is enter "make" on the Unix commandline and then copy the compiled binary to somewhere in your path.

-h	Show a short usage text.
-o	Save the original file into a new file with extension ".old".
-r	Recurse into subdirectories. Process all the matching files in all subdirectories.
filenames	The files to be processed. A filename may include a directory (default is the current working directory) and wildcards "*" (any characters) or "?" (any single character).

Warning: Be careful! This utility is for flat-text files only, such as HTML and TXT files. Don't try translating files such as Word documents, spreadsheets, databases, and others, because they will be destroyed!