Well, there is always HTML::FromText.

See also:
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• HTML::FromText (review)
• Automating a Static Website
• HTML::FromText patch

HTML::FromText totally wrecks cyrillic letters =/. Seems, like I'll do it rather myself

Will keep You informed

I managed to make it this way:

use HTML::FromText;
use HTML::Entities;
    my $text=shift;
my $t2h = HTML::FromText->new({
        paras      => 0,
        blockcode  => 0,
        tables     => 0,
        bullets    => 0,
        numbers    => 0,
        urls       => 1,
        email      => 1,
        bold       => 0,
        underline  => 0,
        metachars  => 0,
    });
$text=encode_entities($text, '<>&"');
my $html=$t2h->parse($text);
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Something like this is probably all you need

sub get_text {
    my ($text, $cols) = @_;
    $cols ||= 80;
    require Text::Wrap;
    $Text::Wrap::columns = $cols;
    # tabs to 4 spaces
    $text =~ s/\t/    /g;
    # now wrap it
    $text = Text::Wrap::wrap('','',$text);
    # iterate over chunks, escaping HTML and linking
    $text =~ s{(\S+)}
              { local $_ = $1;
                m/^(?:http|ftp)/ ? qq!<a href="$_">!.escapeHTML($_).qq
+!</a>! :
                m/^www\./        ? qq!<a href="http://$_">!.escapeHTML
+($_).qq!</a>! :
                m/^[^@]+@[^@]/   ? qq!<a href="mailto:$_">!.escapeHTML
+($_).qq!</a>! :
                                   escapeHTML($_);
              }ge;
    # fix whitespace (and newlines if not using pre tags)
    $text =~ s/( {2,})/"&nbsp;" x length $1/eg;
    #$text =~  s/\n/<br>\n/g;
    # wrap in pre tags
    $text = '<pre>' . $text . '</pre>';
  return $text;
}

sub escapeHTML {
    my ( $escape ) = @_;
  return '' unless defined $escape ;
    $escape =~ s/&/&amp;/g;
    $escape =~ s/"/&quot;/g;
    $escape =~ s/</&lt;/g;
    $escape =~ s/>/&gt;/g;
    $escape =~ s/([^\000-\177])/'&#' . (sprintf "%3d", ord $1) . ';'/e
+g;
  return $escape;
}
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cheers

tachyon