Talk:بسم الله

للّٰه
Hi, I'd like to know why there are two couples of شدة on top, if it is not a typo. Thanks in advance. --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:47, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I can't see that. It looks right to me: hamzatulwasl on the first alif, then shadda and dagger alif on the second lam. And in the phrase below it's the same but with a final kasrah. --Hiztegilari (talk) 10:58, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * There is a problem with the word . It is because of the ligature . The ligature appears differently in different fonts. In some fonts, there is a shadda + superscript alif above the, while in other fonts there is no shadda or superscript alif above the . Furthermore, in some fonts there is a simple  (because lam-lam-he is a word all by itself), while in other fonts there is an alif in front of it: . In the earliest Arabic fonts, simply typing lam-lam-he produced the full word , with initial alif and shadda + superscript alif. Later, it was found that sometimes lam-lam-he should be just that, and no initial alif. And that is why different fonts show different results.
 * So if you see two initial alifs and two shaddas in, it is because your font already shows an initial alif and a shadda on , and when the editor (whose font did not show the initial alif or shadda) added an initial alif and a shadda, he made a word that looked correct to him ( because of his font), but incorrectly as to you. —Stephen (Talk) 04:54, 15 March 2017 (UTC)