Rendering Emoji with PIL

I am trying to make images out of tweets, however some of them contain Emojis. I am using PIL to render my images and the Symbola font.

The text is in unicode utf-8 encoding and the Symbola font does include the emojis. Here is an abridged version of the code:

from PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw
text = u"\U0001f300" #CYCLONE emoji
image = Image.new("RGBA", (100,100), (255,255,255))
font = ImageFont.truetype("Symbola.ttf", 60, encoding='unic')
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
draw.text((0,0), text, (0,0,0), font=font)
image.save("Test.png")
image.show()

This just renders and image with two rectangles instead of the emoji

Would appreciate any help or ideas.

Thanks!

EDIT: As falsetru pointed out, this code does run in Ubuntu, however it doesn't run on Windows or on Mac. Any ideas?