Emojis not rendered in new issue template selection

[targos]

I don't know if it's a GitHub bug or recent change, but some emojis are not rendered:

[aduh95]

Maybe related to the changes in #41756?

[Mesteery]

Yes, it's related. I opened a discussion on github/feedback: community/community#11540.

[targos]

Do we actually need an escape sequence? Why don't we put the character directly inline?