XML2ASC(1) HTML-XML-utils XML2ASC(1)
NAME
xml2asc - convert UTF-8 to &#nnn; entities
SYNOPSIS
xml2asc
DESCRIPTION
Reads an UTF-8 encoded text from standard input and writes to standard output, converting all non-ASCII characters to &#nnn; entities, so
that the result is ASCII-encoded.
One example use is to convert ISO-8859-1 to ASCII with &#nnn; entities, by first running asc2xml to convert ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and then
pipe the result into xml2asc to convert to ASCII with &#nnn; entities for all accented characters.
DIAGNOSTICS
xml2asc returns with a non-zero exit code if the input was not UTF-8.
SEE ALSO
asc2xml(1), UTF-8 (RFC 2279)
BUGS
Doesn't distinguish mark-up from content, so if the input uses non-ASCII characters in XML element names, they will be output with numeri-
cal entities in them, which is not legal in XML.
6.x 10 Jul 2011 XML2ASC(1)
