Still haven't found the solution, but I'm thinking it may be as a result of encoding on mySQL database. Cross reference https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-chokes-on-turkey-emoji-for-thanksgiving/ Closing for now...

Chris Aldrich

January 30, 2017

Replied to a post on github.com :

Still haven't found the solution, but I'm thinking it may be as a result of encoding on mySQL database. Cross reference https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-chokes-on-turkey-emoji-for-thanksgiving/

Closing for now...