diff --git a/examples/widgets/doc/src/wiggly.qdoc b/examples/widgets/doc/src/wiggly.qdoc
index 2c7ea5db9e..30a2a34f1b 100644
--- a/examples/widgets/doc/src/wiggly.qdoc
+++ b/examples/widgets/doc/src/wiggly.qdoc
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
     {QLineEdit::textChanged()}{textChanged()} signal to the wiggly
     widget's \c setText() slot to obtain the real time interaction
     with the wiggly widget. The widget's default text is "Hello
-    world!".
+    world!", with an emoji thrown in for fun.
 
     \section1 WigglyWidget Class Definition
 
@@ -115,13 +115,16 @@
 
     Each time the \c paintEvent() function is called, we create a
     QPainter object \c painter to draw the contents of the widget.
-    For each character in \c text, we determine the color and the
-    position on the wiggly line based on \c step. In addition, \c x
-    is incremented by the character's width.
+    Since we are going to paint the character symbols individually, we
+    extract the unique unicode code point for each character from \c
+    text, and convert it to a string \c symbol. For each \c symbol, we
+    determine the color and the position on the wiggly line based on
+    \c step and its \c offset from the start of the text. In addition,
+    \c x is incremented by the symbol's width.
 
     For simplicity, we assume that QFontMetrics::horizontalAdvance(\c text)
     returns the sum of the individual character advances
-    (QFontMetrics::horizontalAdvance(\c text[i])). In practice, this is not
+    (QFontMetrics::horizontalAdvance(\c symbol)). In practice, this is not
     always the case because QFontMetrics::horizontalAdvance(\c text) also takes
     into account the kerning between certain letters (e.g., 'A' and
     'V'). The result is that the text isn't perfectly centered. You
diff --git a/examples/widgets/widgets/wiggly/dialog.cpp b/examples/widgets/widgets/wiggly/dialog.cpp
index 08a240af56..0f3aa84fd8 100644
--- a/examples/widgets/widgets/wiggly/dialog.cpp
+++ b/examples/widgets/widgets/wiggly/dialog.cpp
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Dialog::Dialog(QWidget *parent)
     layout->addWidget(lineEdit);
 
     connect(lineEdit, &QLineEdit::textChanged, wigglyWidget, &WigglyWidget::setText);
-    lineEdit->setText(tr("Hello world!"));
+    lineEdit->setText(u8"🖖 " + tr("Hello world!"));
 
     setWindowTitle(tr("Wiggly"));
     resize(360, 145);
diff --git a/examples/widgets/widgets/wiggly/wigglywidget.cpp b/examples/widgets/widgets/wiggly/wigglywidget.cpp
index d7890ef2b7..3e686a67cf 100644
--- a/examples/widgets/widgets/wiggly/wigglywidget.cpp
+++ b/examples/widgets/widgets/wiggly/wigglywidget.cpp
@@ -39,13 +39,14 @@ void WigglyWidget::paintEvent(QPaintEvent * /* event */)
 //! [3]
     QPainter painter(this);
 //! [3] //! [4]
-    for (int i = 0; i < text.size(); ++i) {
-        int index = (step + i) % 16;
+    int offset = 0;
+    for (char32_t codePoint : text.toUcs4()) {
+        int index = (step + offset++) % 16;
         color.setHsv((15 - index) * 16, 255, 191);
         painter.setPen(color);
-        painter.drawText(x, y - ((sineTable[index] * metrics.height()) / 400),
-                         QString(text[i]));
-        x += metrics.horizontalAdvance(text[i]);
+        QString symbol = QString::fromUcs4(&codePoint, 1);
+        painter.drawText(x, y - ((sineTable[index] * metrics.height()) / 400), symbol);
+        x += metrics.horizontalAdvance(symbol);
     }
 }
 //! [4]