diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
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-[submodule "icu"]
-	path = icu
-	url = https://github.com/unicode-org/icu
-	branch = maint/maint-75
diff --git a/icu b/icu
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-Subproject commit 9f64d3f269014814058091bfe9982c42d59847a7