Vilistextum

## Overview

This is release 2.8.10 (?? ??? 2019) of Vilistextum.
Vilistextum is a HTML to text / ASCII converter specifically programmed to get the best out of incorrect html. It is released as free software under the terms of the GNU GPL Version 2.

### Some features:

- small and fast
- understands HTML 3.2 upto 4.01, XHTML 1.0, and HTML5
- creates footnotes for links
- can swallow multiple empty lines
- removes empty ALT attributes
- converts characters and entities between 128 and 159 from the windows1252 charset to meaningful strings in ISO-8859-1. E.g. 0x93 is converted to ".
- output can be optimized for ebook reading
- supports various multibyte encodings (e.g. Unicode, Shift_JIS)

### REQUIREMENTS:

For multibyte support your system needs a working iconv library (e.g. libiconv).

### How to read HTML mail with gnus or mutt using vilistextum

If you want to use vilistextum for automatically converting html mails to ascii read htmlmail.

### Bug reports or comments:

You can send your comments or bug reports in German or English to bhaak@gmx.net or open an issue at GitHub.
If you've discovered a bug, please also include the link or attach a copy of the html file that caused the bug.