HTMLXlat is a small utility that I built some time ago while I was working on the site of my employer: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Since KLM has customers all over the world, we also have Internet sites in different languages. This means that we often have to use international characters that should be encoded (e.g. é is ?. I noticed that I was often manually converting the special characters to their corresponding HTML codes. I built the HTMLXlat utility to do this automatically in order to make my life a little easier.