Italian Braille is the

braille Braille (Pronounced: ) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired, including people who are blind, deafblind or who have low vision. It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille displ ...

alphabet of the

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, both in Italy and in Switzerland. It is very close to

French Braille French Braille is the original braille alphabet, and the basis of all others. The alphabetic order of French has become the basis of the international braille convention, used by most braille alphabets around the world. However, only the 25 basic ...

, with some differences in punctuation.

Alphabet

Since French Braille does not have a letter for ''ó'', Italian Braille uses ''ò'' for both ''ò'' and ''ó''. : If other letters are needed, such as ''j, k, w, x, y'' or accented vowels such as î, French Braille assignments are used. ''j'' is used as the digit 0.

Numbers

Digits are the first ten letters of the alphabet, and are marked by , as in

English Braille English Braille, also known as ''Grade 2 Braille'', is the braille alphabet used for English. It consists of around 250 letters ( phonograms), numerals, punctuation, formatting marks, contractions, and abbreviations (logograms). Some English Br ...

. Although a dot as full stop (period) is , a dot as a digit separator, as in 3.500 for three thousand five hundred, is ().

Punctuation

is the full stop / period; is the digit separator in numbers. *According to Unesco (2013), Italian Braille uses the old French parentheses 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 ; Unesco and the ''Unione'' agree on the assignment of to the parentheses, as in the chart above, and the ''Unione'' has for braces. ( ''ç'' and ''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 is the convention for either parentheses or square brackets in non-mathematical text.

Formatting

References

Unione Italiana Ciechi di LegnanoCodice Braille
from the ''Unione Italiana dei Ciechi e degli Ipovedenti'' *UNESCO (2013
World Braille Usage
3rd edition. {{Braille French-ordered braille alphabets Italian language