As a common symbol throughout typographic history, the heart shape has found its way into many character sets and encodings, including those of Unicode.
The pager received rave reviews in Asia which led to other companies in the region to consider using pictograms in the list of text characters.
This led NTT DoCoMo to reverse their decision and include the heart pictogram.
[4] In early 2022, Middle Eastern news publications suggested that sending a Red Heart emoji on WhatsApp in Saudi Arabia could amount to harassment and if convicted, the sender could serve a maximum sentence of two years in jail.
[5] The red heart (❤️) emoji is an ideogram that is used in communication to express care and as a romantic or love gesture.