Thank you, Samantha!
An outstanding question is one posed by Joseph Brenner--that
is--knowing which version of the Unicode standard is supported by
Raku. I grepped through two files, one called "unicode.c" and the
other called "unicode_db.c". They're both located in rakudo at:
/rakudo/rakudo-2020.
In #raku it was mentioned that it would be nice to have a $*UNICODE variable of
sorts that reports back the version, but not sure how that would be from an
implementation POV.
I'm also late to the discussion, so pardon me jumping back a bit. Basically,
ICU is something that lets you quickly ad