More Emoji Draft Candidates for 2019

Couples Image There are now 179 proposed Emoji Draft Candidates
<http://unicode.org/emoji/future/emoji-candidates.html> (61 characters
plus variants) for 2019. These are the short-listed candidates for
Emoji 12.0, which is planned for release in 2019Q1 together with Unicode
12.0.

The following changes were made in the recent Unicode Technical
Committee (UTC) meeting:

   1. Added a candidate emoji for deaf person
   2. Changed service animal vest to safety vest, and added a candidate
      emoji sequence using it: service dog
   3. Added candidate emoji sequences for couple holding hands, with 55
      combinations of skin tone and gender
   4. Changed names and ordering for various characters

The list of draft candidates will be reviewed and finalized in the next
UTC meeting, this coming September. Feedback is solicited on short
names, keywords, and ordering. See also the Emoji 11.0 charts
<https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts-11.0/index.html>.

Eight Emoji Provisional Candidates
<https://www.unicode.org/emoji/future/emoji-provisional.html> for 2020
were also added (ninja, military helmet, mammoth, feather, dodo, magic
wand, carpentry saw, screwdriver). For example:
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ninja
        
magic wand

Between now and March 2019, these and other Provisional Candidates will
be collected. The Unicode emoji subcommittee will then assess the whole
set, and make recommendations to the UTC for which emoji to advance to
Draft Candidate status for 2020.
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