Two activists want the Unicode Consortium to add the American Sign Language handshape for "I love you" to Unicode 9.

While this year’s Emoji 15.0 draft includes 31 candidates, last year’s draft had 112 belonging to Emoji 14.0. All that is dwarfed by 334 emoji submissions shared between Emoji 13.0 and Emoji 13.1.

His latest sanity project was to develop a series of emoji for COVID-19. He created 12 emoji—including many inspired by those you know and love—for pandemic times: the prayer hands get bubbles ...