[How to insert Unicode characters?]

2 hours ago, J99 said:

If that is the case then how do yo explain this: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f463/index.htm

 

Yes, my mistake... I am used to working with UTF-16 and it totally escaped me that there also is UTF-32 (what you are referring to).

I have tried different ways and it looks like Affinity is not recognizing (confusing) standard way of entering special characters,  

so I used Word: inserted the character into empty document, cut and paste the text into Affinity:

 

Robert

[How to insert Unicode characters?]

Unicode character range is U+0000...U+FFFF. You have one too many digits in there.