Overview This is release 2.6.9 (22 October 2006) 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 and XHTML 1.0 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.