diff --git a/CHANGELOG.adoc b/CHANGELOG.adoc
index f7aa2fb0..ef5091f0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.adoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.adoc
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ A release with an intentional breaking changes is marked with:
 
 == Unreleased
 
+* https://github.com/clj-commons/etaoin/pull/552[#552]: Add support for wide characters to input fill functions
+(https://github.com/tupini07[@tupini07])
 * bump all deps to current versions
 * docs
 ** https://github.com/clj-commons/etaoin/issues/534[#534]: better describe `etaoin.api/select` and its alternatives
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index aa1c416b..1f831a81 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 - include changes unrelated to the purpose of the PR. This includes changing the project version number, adding lines to the
 `.gitignore` file, or changing the indentation or formatting.
 - open a new PR if changes are requested. Just push to the same branch and the PR will be updated.
-- ever force push on a PR, it makes it too hard to review.
+- never force push on a PR, it makes it too hard to review.
 - overuse vertical whitespace; avoid multiple sequential blank lines.
 
 [1]: https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/#seven-rules
diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index a31bb0cc..47ce353d 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ Can be `alpha`, `beta`, `rc1`, etc.
 * https://github.com/kidd[Raimon Grau]
 * https://github.com/verma[Uday Verma]
 * https://github.com/mjmeintjes[Matt Meintjes]
+* https://github.com/tupini07[Andrea Tupini]
 
 === Current Maintainers
 
diff --git a/doc/01-user-guide.adoc b/doc/01-user-guide.adoc
index 6da09884..15a1895d 100644
--- a/doc/01-user-guide.adoc
+++ b/doc/01-user-guide.adoc
@@ -838,6 +838,27 @@ You can collect elements into a vector and arbitrarily interact with them at any
 
 Some basic interactions are covered under <<querying>>, here we go into other types of interactions and more detail.
 
+=== UNICODE and Emojis
+As of this writing, Chrome and Edge https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=2269[only support] filling inputs with UNICODE in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(Unicode)#Basic_Multilingual_Plane[Basic Multilingual Plane].
+This includes many characters, but not many emojis 😢.
+
+Firefox and Safari seem to support UNICODE more generally 🙂.
+
+[source,clojure]
+----
+(e/with-chrome driver
+  (e/go driver sample-page)
+  (e/fill driver :uname "ⱾⱺⱮⱸ ᢹⓂ Ᵽ")
+  (e/get-element-value driver :uname))
+;; => "ⱾⱺⱮⱸ ᢹⓂ Ᵽ"
+
+(e/with-firefox driver
+  (e/go driver sample-page)
+  (e/fill driver :uname "ⱾⱺⱮⱸ ᢹⓂ Ᵽ plus 👍🔥🙂")
+  (e/get-element-value driver :uname))
+;; => "ⱾⱺⱮⱸ ᢹⓂ Ᵽ plus 👍🔥🙂"
+----
+
 === Emulate how a Real Person Might Type
 
 Real people type slowly and make mistakes.
@@ -861,6 +882,9 @@ which you can choose to override if you wish:
 
 ;; or just use default options by omitting them
 (e/fill-human driver :uname " typing human defaults")
+
+(e/get-element-value driver :uname)
+;; => "soslowsobad typing human defaults"
 ----
 
 For multiple inputs, use `fill-human-multi`
@@ -2132,7 +2156,7 @@ Example: `:log-level :err`
 
 | `:all`
 
-a| `driver-log-level` *WebDriver* minimal log level.
+a| `:driver-log-level` *WebDriver* minimal log level.
 values vary by browser driver vendor:
 
 * chrome `"OFF"` `"SEVERE"` `"WARNING"` `"INFO"` or `"DEBUG"`
diff --git a/src/etaoin/api.clj b/src/etaoin/api.clj
index 14f76ba6..cfb5c2c9 100644
--- a/src/etaoin/api.clj
+++ b/src/etaoin/api.clj
@@ -2809,8 +2809,19 @@
 ;; input
 ;;
 
+(defn- codepoints
+  "Clojure returns a seq of chars for a string.
+  This does not handle wide (unicode) characters.
+  Here we return a seq of codepoint strings for string `s`."
+  [s]
+  (->> s
+       .codePoints
+       .iterator
+       iterator-seq
+       (map #(Character/toString %))))
+
 (defn- make-input* [text & more]
-  (mapv str (apply str text more)))
+  (codepoints (apply str text more)))
 
 (defmulti fill-el
   "Have `driver` fill input element `el` with `text` (and optionally `more` text)."
@@ -2908,13 +2919,13 @@
         wait-key  (fn [] (wait (min (rand) pause-max)))]
     (click-el driver el)
     (wait-key)
-    (doseq [key text]
+    (doseq [c (codepoints text)]
       (when (< (rand) mistake-prob)
         (fill-el driver el (rand-char))
         (wait-key)
         (fill-el driver el k/backspace)
         (wait-key))
-      (fill-el driver el key)
+      (fill-el driver el c)
       (wait-key))))
 
 (defn fill-human
diff --git a/test/etaoin/api_test.clj b/test/etaoin/api_test.clj
index d91b3218..9aa269cd 100644
--- a/test/etaoin/api_test.clj
+++ b/test/etaoin/api_test.clj
@@ -106,11 +106,11 @@
       (-> e/get-url
           (str/ends-with? "?login=1&password=2&message=3")
           is)))
-  (testing "fill human multiple imputs"
+  (testing "fill human multiple inputs"
     (doto *driver*
       (e/fill-human-multi {:simple-input    "login"
-                         :simple-password "123"
-                         :simple-textarea "text"})
+                           :simple-password "123"
+                           :simple-textarea "text"})
       (e/click :simple-submit)
       (e/when-safari (e/wait 3))
       (-> e/get-url
@@ -125,6 +125,37 @@
           (str/ends-with? "?login=1test2+A&password=&message=")
           is))))
 
+(deftest test-unicode-bmp-input
+  (let [data {:simple-input "ĩṋṗṵţ"
+              :simple-password "ǷḁṡṢẅỏṟƉ"
+              :simple-textarea "т️ẹẍṱảṙẸẚ"}]
+    (testing "fill-multi"
+      (e/fill-multi *driver* data)
+      (doseq [f [:simple-input :simple-password :simple-textarea]]
+        (is (= (f data) (e/get-element-value *driver* f)))))
+    (testing "fill-human-multi"
+      (e/refresh *driver*)
+      (e/fill-human-multi *driver* data)
+      (doseq [f [:simple-input :simple-password :simple-textarea]]
+        (is (= (f data) (e/get-element-value *driver* f)))))))
+
+(deftest test-unicode-above-bmp-input
+    ;; as of 2023-04-29 not supported on chrome and edge
+    ;; https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=2269
+    (when-not (#{:chrome :edge} (e/dispatch-driver *driver*))
+      (let [data {:simple-input "😊🍂input🍃"
+                  :simple-password "🔆password☠️ "
+                  :simple-textarea "🎉🚀textarea👀☀️"}]
+        (testing "fill-multi"
+          (e/fill-multi *driver* data)
+          (doseq [f [:simple-input :simple-password :simple-textarea]]
+            (is (= (f data) (e/get-element-value *driver* f)))))
+        (testing "fill-human-multi"
+          (e/refresh *driver*)
+          (e/fill-human-multi *driver* data)
+          (doseq [f [:simple-input :simple-password :simple-textarea]]
+            (is (= (f data) (e/get-element-value *driver* f))))))))
+
 (deftest test-clear
   (testing "simple clear"
     (doto *driver*