Re: How to output a braille format file in braille font?

[Samuel Thibault <samuel thibault ens-lyon org>]

coscell mail batol net, le Sat 10 Mar 2007 21:14:22 +0800, a écrit :
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > coscell mail batol net, le Sat 10 Mar 2007 20:45:16 +0800, a 'ecrit :
> > > On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > coscell mail batol net, le Sat 10 Mar 2007 12:07:53 +0800, a 'ecrit :
> > > > > As title. For demostration, are there solutions to translate a braille
> > > > > format file into braille font and display on screen for sighted person?
> > > >
> > > > Yes: if you have a recent enough glibc, all you need to do is
> > > >
> > > > iconv -f brf -t utf-8 < text.brf
> > > Thank you! But why it doesn't accept lowercase?
> >
> > Because the BRF format is supposed to use uppercase letters (and iconv
> > only uses bijection translations).
> >
> Is there another solution?

Translate lowercase in uppercase on the fly:

tr a-z A-Z < text.brf | iconv -f brf

Samuel