Some Game Center Display Names will not render correctly in UMG text

We have implemented PlayFab as our platform agnostic leaderboard system, and pass both Game Center names and Google Play names to this server.

Everything up to this point is perfect.

However when we get the username to display in UMG we get an ugly Undefined character instead of the correct emoji one.

As you can see from the attached image it is stored correctly on the server and we have chosen a font and imported it into unreal and this displays the character correctly in preview, however this does not display in UMG (I’ve tried the font directly, as a fallback, and a sub font family to no joy).

Please can someone tell me how to resolve this, as these emoji characters are used more and more on mobile devices.

Hello, BeardyBiker.
Did you solve this issue?
I’m currently dealing with the same problem…
Thanks a lot!