It is not every day that you see a Google featured snippet with search-forum-recap-november-22-2024">emojis and special Unicode characters. Here is an example of one spotted by Nick Churick (hat tip Patrick Stox) that he posted on X.
I was able to replicate it for the search [outbound link ratio]:
This is pulled from this Quroa post:
Google has flipped-flopped between dropping and adding emojis in Google Search. Most recently, John Mueller of Google called emojis in Google search unprofessional.
I wonder if Google will do something about this specific snippet and future ones that cite content with emojis and special characters?
Forum discussion at X.