I installed a small AutoHotkey script that uses hotstrings so that I can enter some emoji and other special characters:
::–::–
::†::†
::π::𝜋
::&shrug;::¯\_(ツ)_/¯
::&tm;::™
::&c;::©
::&r;::®
::&tableflip;::(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
::&music;::♫
::&piano;::🎹
::&cmark;::✓
::&xmark;::✗
::&hourglass;::⌛
The script is also available in PasteBin .
All this works in my text editor:

However, some replacements do not work everywhere, for example, in Telegram Desktop:

Both emoji were originally copied from Telegram Desktop, so they are definitely supported in it.
Why does this not work as expected?
I am running AutoHotkey Unicode 64-Bit in version 1.1.23.3 on Windows 10 (version 1511), Sublime Text 3 (3103) and Telegram Desktop 0.9.28.
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