Steps to reproduce:

1. Type the text with emoticons
2. try to read it with any synthesizer, language or voice of the synthesizer,
   note, this bug also affects espeak,
3. try to read emoticon symbols with arrow keys, and using the review cursor commands.
   note that emoticons symbols are not readable by word and when reading whole text

Actual behavior:

emoticons are not read with cld data enabled

Expected behavior:

emoticons should be read

System configuration:

windows 10 1809 17763

NVDA Installed/portable/running from source:

installed

NVDA version:

latest alpha, alpha-16149,e713f614

Windows version:

10.0.17763 /1809

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue:

n/a not applicable

Other information about your system:

Other questions:

Does the issue still occur after restarting your PC?

yes

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA?

no, and not applicable, as this is the new feature recently included