diff --git a/insights/client/apps/ansible/playbook_verifier/serializer.py b/insights/client/apps/ansible/playbook_verifier/serializer.py
index 12daafe5a..93b942940 100644
--- a/insights/client/apps/ansible/playbook_verifier/serializer.py
+++ b/insights/client/apps/ansible/playbook_verifier/serializer.py
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ def _str(cls, value):
             "\\": "\\\\",
             "\n": "\\n",
             "\t": "\\t",
+            "\u200d": "\\u200d",  # Zero-width joiner
         }
         escaped_string = ""
         for char in value:
diff --git a/insights/tests/client/apps/test_playbook_verifier.py b/insights/tests/client/apps/test_playbook_verifier.py
index 2a3088377..8a9195556 100644
--- a/insights/tests/client/apps/test_playbook_verifier.py
+++ b/insights/tests/client/apps/test_playbook_verifier.py
@@ -379,6 +379,15 @@ def test_strings(self, source, expected):
         result = playbook_verifier.PlaybookSerializer.serialize(source)
         assert result == expected
 
+    def test_strings_emoji_zwj(self):
+        if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
+            raise pytest.skip("Unicode characters are not supported on Python 2 systems")
+
+        source = "👨🏼‍🚀"
+        result = playbook_verifier.PlaybookSerializer.serialize(source)
+        expected = "'👨🏼\\u200d🚀'"
+        assert result == expected
+
 
 class TestSerializePlaybookSnippet:
     def test_serialize_dictionary(self):
@@ -429,8 +438,6 @@ def test_small(self):
     def test_real(self, filename):
         if filename == "unicode" and sys.version_info < (3, 0):
             raise pytest.skip("Playbooks containing unicode are not supported in Python 2 systems")
-        if filename == "unicode" and sys.version_info >= (3, 12):
-            raise pytest.xfail("Known RFE in Unicode serialization.")
 
         parent = os.path.dirname(__file__)  # type: str
         with open("{parent}/playbooks/{filename}.yml".format(parent=parent, filename=filename), "r") as f: