QPainterPath breaks emoji rendering

#!/usr/bin/python3

import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QWidget, QApplication
from PyQt5.QtGui import QPainter, QColor, QFont, QPainterPath
from PyQt5.QtCore import Qt, QT_VERSION_STR


class Example(QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.initUI()
        
        
    def initUI(self):      
        self.text = "check the emoji -> � <- that is here"
        self.show()
        

    def paintEvent(self, event):
        qp = QPainter()
        qp.begin(self)
        pp = QPainterPath()
        # IF THE FOLLOWING LINE IS UNCOMMENTED, IT BREAKS BOTH TEXTS
        # pp.addText(10, 10, QFont(), self.text)
        # ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        qp.drawPath(pp)
        qp.drawText(event.rect(), Qt.AlignCenter, self.text)        
        qp.end()

                
        
if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(QT_VERSION_STR)

    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    ex = Example()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())