Keyboard patch installed correctly, still when I try to run the emoji-dl.sh script via SSH, I get the following:
[root@XperiaXA2 Downloads]# ./emoji-dl.sh apple
./emoji-dl.sh: line 26: shopt: not found
./emoji-dl.sh: line 28: syntax error: unexpected “(”
Then we found the issue, thank you for investigating! 
I only had the opportunity to test it on a 32bit phone.
So: everyone with a 64bit phone has to wait until @nephros can release a fix in patchmanager, or you can edit the patch file to say /usr/lib64/qt5 instead of /usr/lib/qt5. People using 32bit phones should be able to update the emoji patch without issues.
You must run this on a computer, not on your phone. The script requires bash, and can be quite resource intensive. Just copy the downloaded and post-processed files to your phone after running the script.
Also: make sure you have the most recent version of emoji-dl.sh. I updated it yesterday because the source API has changed.
Very well!
On XA2 it’s now working flawlessly. 
Thank U!