Merge not displaying emojis and special characters

I have created a series of files from python that creates .csv files for InDesign.  The files are written in (utf-16) format.  As shown in the first picture when I select a csv data source the special characters show up.  I then load them as unicode dellimited by commas on my pc (see 2. Choose Data Source Input Options).  I populate them into a form, which shows the fields I am trying to work with (Comments and Counter) - (see 3. Populate Data Merge Fields)

When I look at the output (6. Result Missing UTF-16 Emoji characters) any specail characters do not display while standard text (ie the counters, which are numbers) and text displays.

I am using InDesign 17.2.1 x64 on a Dell workstation with 256 GB of RAM running Windows 10 x64

Would appreciate any insights to make this work.