ICU-23055 Add warning about our plan to remove in locale-service-provider.md
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+# WARNING: Please note that for ICU 78 (2025-oct) we are planning to remove the ICU4J Locale Service Provider. See the [ICU 77 page](https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/download/77.html) for details.
+
## Overview
Java SE 6 introduced a new feature which allows Java user code to extend locale
