ICU-5801 Merging the last update in readme.html from maint-3-8, which added the warning note about ICU4J charset converter implementation issues.
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usage. For more information, see <a href="http://icu-project.org/userguide/formatDateTime.html">
Formatting Dates and Times</a> in the User Guide.
<p>
+<p><b>Status of ICU4J charset converter</b>
+<p>The ICU4J implementation of java.nio.charset.Charset is included as a Technology
+Preview. Not all functionality from the java.nio.Charset interfaces is operational,
+and some converters are known to mis-handle Unicode supplementary characters. Use with caution.
+<p>
<p><b>New features</b>
<p>
See the <a href="http://www.icu-project.org/download/">ICU 3.8 download page</a> about new features in this release.
