[TYPO3-core] FYI: Added feature #4686:Remove dependency of htmlArea RTE Spell Checker on php extension mbstring

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Stanislas Rolland wrote:
> Problem:
> htmlArea RTE Spell Checker requires PHP to be compiled with mbstring, 
> but mbstring is not so commonly installed.
> 
> Solution:
> Aspell does not support spell checking of Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, 
> Thai and Chinese. I think this excludes all double-byte charsets. 
> Therefore I think that we can drop the mbstring requirement and assume 
> that the contents of the RTE is single-byte. Manual is updated accordingly.

For the clariry... UTF-8 is double byte. Any cyrillic letter in UTF-8 is double byte. Save for german, latvian and other languages that have non-ascii characters.

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Dmitry Dulepov
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