---
name: "asc2xml"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "html-xml-utils"
version: "8.8-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/asc2xml"
---

# asc2xml(1)

convert &#nnn; entities to UTF-8

## NAME

asc2xml - convert &#nnn; entities to UTF-8

## SYNOPSIS

**asc2xml**

## DESCRIPTION

Reads an ASCII or ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) text from standard input and writes encoded UTF-8 to standard output.

## SEE ALSO

[**xml2asc**(1)](/xml2asc/1.md), **UTF-8** (RFC 2279)
