Yugoslav Braille is a family of closely related

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alphabets used for

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, namely

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, Slovene and Macedonian. It is based on the

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conventions, with the letters corresponding to their

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Alphabet

Punctuation

Serbian and Croatian Braille differ in quotation marks, brackets, and in the period/full stop vs. apostrophe.The Croatian apostrophe is unusual by international standards, and it is possible the period and apostrophe were swapped in a copy error by Unesco (2013) and copied from them to other sources.

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gives for the period and for parentheses, both agreeing with Serbian Braille. There is less punctuation reported for Slovene and Macedonian Braille, but what there is matches Serbian conventions. Blank cells in the tables are unattested. Single punctuation: Paired punctuation:

Formatting

The superscript is reported for Croatian Braille; in Serbian Braille, is used for the virgule /. In Slovene Braille, the emphasis (bold/italic) marker is reported to be an abbreviation sign.

References

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