Italian Braille

Since French Braille does not have a letter for ó, Italian Braille uses {{bc|346}} ò for both ò and ó.

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If other letters are needed, such as j, k, w, x, y or accented vowels such as î, French Braille assignments are used. {{Braille cell|j}} j is used as the digit 0.

Digits are the first ten letters of the alphabet, and are marked by {{bc|#}}, as in English Braille.

Although a dot as full stop (period) is {{bc|dd}}, a dot as a digit separator, as in 3.500 for three thousand five hundred, is {{bc|3}} ({{bc|#|#3|3|#5|#0|#0}}).

{{bc|dd}} is the full stop / period; {{bc|3}} is the digit separator in numbers.

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*According to Unesco (2013), Italian Braille uses the old French parentheses {{bc|gg||gg}} as square brackets. According to the Unione Italiana Ciechi di Legnano, those are used for parentheses; square brackets are not given. And according to the Unione Italiana dei Ciechi e degli Ipovedenti, square brackets are {{bc|à||ù}}; Unesco and the Unione agree on the assignment of {{bc|ee||ii}} to the parentheses, as in the chart above, and the Unione has {{bc|ç||y}} for braces. ({{bc|ç}} ç and {{bc|y}} y are not part of the Italian alphabet.) However, the Unione specifies than the symmetrically paired brackets are mathematical notation, so it may be that the old, generic {{bc|gg||gg}} is the convention for either parentheses or square brackets in non-mathematical text.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140315064715/http://www.legnano.org/reteciv/associaz/uic/i-braille.htm Unione Italiana Ciechi di Legnano]
• [http://www.uicilucca.it/glossario/codice-braille/ Codice Braille] from the Unione Italiana dei Ciechi e degli Ipovedenti
• UNESCO (2013) [https://www.pharmabraille.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/World-Braille-Usage-Third-Edition-1.pdf World Braille Usage], 3rd edition.

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