How to enable Emoji in UI.Text

Currently special characters are showing in my UI.Text components, but Emoji’s do not work.

How do I enable Emoji’s in Unity UI Text objects? Do we need a plugin or special font?

For example we would like to be able to have soccer ball emoji: :soccer:

unity default ui doesnt support this feauture you need to go to windows > package manager and install text mesh pro, using text mesh pro you can add graphics in the text