diff --git a/tests/functional/posting_test.php b/tests/functional/posting_test.php
index 298bb40a90..e4b23c3215 100644
--- a/tests/functional/posting_test.php
+++ b/tests/functional/posting_test.php
@@ -41,13 +41,10 @@ class phpbb_functional_posting_test extends phpbb_functional_test_case
 	{
 		$this->login();
 
-		$this->add_lang('posting');
-
-		self::create_post(2,
-			1,
-			"Unsupported: \xF0\x9F\x88\xB3 \xF0\x9F\x9A\xB6",
-			'This is a test with emoji characters in the topic title.'
-		);
+		$post = $this->create_topic(2, "Test Topic \xF0\x9F\xA4\x94 3\xF0\x9D\x94\xBB\xF0\x9D\x95\x9A", 'This is a test with emoji character in the topic title.');
+		$this->create_post(2, $post['topic_id'], "Re: Test Topic 1 \xF0\x9F\xA4\x94 3\xF0\x9D\x94\xBB\xF0\x9D\x95\x9A", 'This is a test with emoji characters in the topic title.');
+		$crawler = self::request('GET', "viewtopic.php?t={$post['topic_id']}&sid={$this->sid}");
+		$this->assertContains("\xF0\x9F\xA4\x94 3\xF0\x9D\x94\xBB\xF0\x9D\x95\x9A", $crawler->text());
 	}
 
 	public function test_supported_unicode_characters()