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Re: Bug#605380: ITP: aha -- ANSI HTML Adapter



Hi Adam,

Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 01:55:05PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > * Package name    : aha
> > * URL or Web page : http://ziz.delphigl.com/tool_aha.php
> > 
> > aha converts ANSI colors to HTML, e.g. if you want to publish the
> > output of ls --color=yes as static HTML somewhere, e.g. in your blog.
> 
> Uhm, except it doesn't even work.  Or rather, there might possibly be some
> program whose output it happens to handle,

I planned to test it thoroughly before uploading. Expect some
text-mode color on planet.d.o soon. ;-)

> Besides totally broken parsing and handling of SGR codes, it will also take
> anything that starts with \e[ to be a SGR.  Not to mention writing all
> messages in German.

I pointed the upstream author to you preliminary bug report. :-)

> I vaguely recall there being some program with this functionality in Debian
> already, however, after a (very brief) search I can't seem to find
> it.

I looked quite close for such a program in Debian and couldn't find
one either. Then I started googling and found aha. And I was happy.
This usually results in packaging. ;-)

> If there indeed is none, you can use my implementation:
> 
> http://angband.pl/svn/kbtin/trunk/ansi2html.c

Haven't found that one with Google, so thanks!

> It can handle all standard SGR codes.  There's no support for xterm-256
> colors, but I can add that if it would be useful for someone.

I'll have a look at it. Maybe both efforts can be merged into one.

		Regards, Axel
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