Hello,
I’ve just come across the same problem. Changing the database column to ut8mb4 does seem to work, but we shouldn’t have to need to do this and risk messing up all the rest of the content.
https://benjaminintal.com/2017/11/06/sanitize-emojis-custom-fields/
There’s a solution here to get it working without needing to update the column format. Would it be possible to implement this directly into acf?
