Summary of Changes

This PR adds the Joomla framework language package as a dependency. This is a preparation for using the Filter package of the framework instead of the CMS, which again is a preparation to using the Input package of the framework instead of the CMS one. Overall, we want to reduce duplicate code. I see the irony, that this introduces a big block of duplicated code for now.

Yes, the classes in the CMS are currently sometimes further ahead than the framework ones, containing additional features, however the framework classes generally have higher quality code, better code coverage and have been properly capsulated. That is the reason why we should switch over to those framework packages.

While this PR allows us to deprecate the Filter CMS classes and Input CMS classes, and switch core code over to the framework classes, we still will have to synchronize the language framework package and the CMS language classes.

This also deprecates the methods in the Language class which are related to com_search.

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