<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>Using symbols in LaTeX: The Russian letter Sha (Ш, U+0248) and the Bitcoin symbol (₿, U+20BF) posed challenges.</li><li>No LaTeX package for Ш as a symbol, workaround involved using Unicode character and setting font with font encoding package.</li><li>Approach using fontenc and Euler worked with pdflatex for Ш, not xelatex.</li><li>For the Bitcoin symbol ₿, fontspec and Liberation Sans with xelatex used, different from Ш method.</li><li>Additional lines in the header were necessary for successful compilation.</li><li>Different font requirements for Ш and ₿ due to font availability.</li><li>The three mathematical uses of Ш are in the shuffle product, Dirac comb distribution, and Tate–Shafarevich group.</li><li>The method described in the post works for both symbols, but the Euler font does not contain the ₿ glyph.</li><li>Related topics include shuffle product, Dirac comb function, and elliptic curves in Bitcoin.</li></ul>

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