Have looked into it, vB does support utf-8 emojis however only in vB5, this forum is vB4, which to be fair is probably around 6 or 7 years old now.
I guess for emoji support it'll have to wait until the forum gets upgraded. I'll see if there is a modification for vB4 to support them, but it'll have to wait till the weekend as my username and password for my vB license to view/download mods is saved to my PC at home