I'm not sure if it does what you mean, but shouldn't the following do what you need?

use HTML::Entities;

my $ascii = <<'ASCII';
The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy god.
ASCII;

my $html = encode_entities($ascii);
$html =~ s/\r?\n/<br>/g;

print "<pre>$html</pre>";

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I'm unaware of any module doing that in its entirety, but maybe you want to just serve up the ascii page with Content-Type: text/plain instead of Content-Type: text/html ?

In reply to Re: [ASCII 2 HTML] Appearently unable to find simple module! by Corion
in thread [ASCII 2 HTML] Appearently unable to find simple module! by blazar

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