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Add an Emoji Language Pack

Emoji alphabets behave like any other lexicon—just remember that characters are grapheme clusters, not single bytes.

  1. Normalize input. Split source words with the unicode-segmentation crate (Rust) or grapheme-splitter (JS) so surrogate pairs stay intact.
  2. Author tile kinds. Assign IDs that reflect the emoji name and point symbol to the rendered glyph.
  3. Ship dictionaries. Use the set engine for tiny curated lists; switch to DAWG or FST once you exceed a few thousand entries.
  4. Expose bindings. Python, WASM, Unity, and Godot all accept UTF-8 strings end-to-end—no extra encoding layer is required.
emoji_tiles.rs
let tileset = Tileset {
  tile_kinds: vec![
    TileKind { id: "SUN".into(), symbol: "🌞".into(), score: 5, is_blank: false, aliases: vec![] },
    TileKind { id: "MOON".into(), symbol: "🌙".into(), score: 4, is_blank: false, aliases: vec![] },
    TileKind { id: "STAR".into(), symbol: "⭐".into(), score: 3, is_blank: false, aliases: vec![] },
  ],
};