Certain symbols move entire widget off-baseline

[JoJoDeveloping]

Hi,

if I use certain symbols in my waybar texts, the entire widget gets misaligned. For example, I have a screen brightness widget, configured like this:

        "backlight": {
                "format": "🖵 {percent}%",
//              "format": "{percent}%",
                "on-click": "next_brightness"
        },

which results in this:

If I instead have the commented-out line, it looks like this:

Notice that the text is now on the same baseline as the texts in the widgets next to it, whereas with the fancy unicode character present, the line is moved up.