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There's more proposals here:

https://github.com/Crissov/unicode-proposals/issues/

There's a rather whimsical one proposed called the Priest Emoji!

https://github.com/Crissov/unicode-proposals/issues/425

Instead of having proposals, why not just implement every thing/subject/object/symbol we can think of?

Because there can only be 17×2^16 – 2048 – 66 = 1,111,998 unicode code points. https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/09/02/number-of-possible...

Of course that limitation is artificial, due to compatibility with UTF-16 and UCS-2. So Microsoft would likely block such a proposal, since they'd have to change how Windows does character encoding.

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