Emojies in pairs problem

Hello,

I’m having some trouble with UTF-8 and emojies.
I need to display a name that can be written in different languages and use emojies.
It seems that it works fine for Chinese/Japanese/Arabic etc but if the name has emojies it doesn’t interpret it properly. So if I have an odd number of emoji codes it shows a square, if I have 2 emojies it shows only one of them.

Here you can see a dummy code:

  • trying to print one or 2 chinesse characters works fine
  • trying to print one or 2 emojies:
    • draws a square if only one
    • draws only the second emoji if 2

emojiCode

And here the output:
emojiOutput

You get an extra lollipop if you know how to show a name like this
image

Thanks!
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