The answer would seem to be "Use a system installed ICU", so that sounds like a good place to start. There's an install kit for Windows at http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/2.6.2/index.html, so if someone'd like to snag that, install it, and teach Parrot to link with it instead of our source, that'd be quite cool.
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Dan
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