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Update Unicode block knowledge via unicodetools git submodule #499

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Microsoft is clearly disinterested in keeping Windows' internal Unicode information up to date.
According to this documentation article on their website, newer versions of the dotnet standard don't even use it anymore, opting instead to pull straight from the ICU. This is a workaround.
Unicode character properties are a whole other issue, but this patch's inclusion of unicodetools makes it possible.

Proof that this patch does indeed work:

screenshot of sequences window showing Latin Extended-F superscript sequences

Microsoft is clearly disinterested in keeping Windows' internal Unicode information up to date. According to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/globalization-icu newer versions of the dotnet standard don't even use it anymore, opting instead to pull straight from the ICU. This is a workaround.
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