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brcmthrowawayyesterday at 6:26 PM1 replyview on HN

I fear for the children who had to memorize this.


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mghackerladyyesterday at 8:26 PM

It isn't a special letter or symbol in arabic, it's just a regular sentence that was added to unicode since it both holds symbolic meaning in islam and is used often enough to be useful. Some fonts render it like any other arabic, making it look like one big sentence as a single character, but others render it as calligraphy