Italian Braille
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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.
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Numbers
Digits are the first ten letters of the alphabet, and are marked by ⠼, as in English Braille.
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.