Unicode codepoints beyond U+FFFF can not be found in kcharselect. Searching for “WINKING FACE” or “U+1F609” does not find the character. Kcharselects search does not even support input of „U+“-notations with more then 4 hex-numbers. This is unfortunate, because there are Fonts on a typical Linux-system that have these glyphs, p.e. DejaVu, … Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Search for “WINKING FACE” or “U+1F609”
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 142625 ***