Saving & rendering emojis from mysql

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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Is anyone having issues getting emojis from the mysql database?

They are rendering fine inside the database (I can see the emoji character), but when I get the data from the database and try to render it in my Yii 2 app, it shows up as a ?.

I have meta charset = utf8 in my head section.

Am I missing something?

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If anyone else is having this issue, please check out this thread on StackOverflow that answers it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51624288/yii-2-not-rendering-emojis-from-mysql-database?noredirect=1#comment90213947_51624288