The Unicode Consortium has today announced the emoji candidates [http://emojipedia.org/unicode-8/] for inclusion in Unicode 8.0 [http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/], due in mid-2015. Popularly requested [https://www.change.org/p/shigetaka-kurita-and-president-of-the-united-states-i-humbly-request-that-you-add-a-hotdog-symbol-to-the-emoji-set-and-furthermore-ketchup-shall-not-be-used-in-the-making-of-this-hot-dog-emoji] emoji accepted as candidates include the Hot Dog Emoji [http://e

The Unicode Consortium has released a technical report [http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-1.html] which details a method for representing a range of skin tones in emoji. Guidelines have previously suggested that emoji people [http://emojipedia.org/people/] be "as neutral as possible regarding race, ethnicity, and