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Synchronizing fonts
On 2/23/2017 5:46 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Neil" wrote | I'm only going to remove fonts not based on roman/Latin/western | characters. Neither do I plan on removing any dingbat/graphic fonts. | Since I don't read, write, or speak any Asian language, I do not need | those fonts. Same for Cyrillic. | | You may not use them when you create documents, but if you wind up on a | website that uses them, you're going to see a mess. Only the commonly | used fonts in other languages are supplied with the OS. | I don't have any such fonts and it's not a problem. If I'm at a Chinese site I'll see little rectangles with hex codes defining unicode characters that can't be displayed. So I can't read the text. But I can't read Chinese, anyway. It's all Greek to me. I can't imagine why I'd want or need a Chinese font. The little boxes tell me what I need to know: This webpage will be of no use to me. I still find it informative whether I wind up on a site with Kanji, Cyrillic, or other lettering, even if I don't understand the language. It at least tells me who their primary audience is. Seeing squares with hex codes is not useful at all. In the days when a "large" HD was 20GB, font management was more of a concern than it is today. I can't really see any good reason to delete the default fonts on a computer. But, I think this has more to do with how one uses their computer than whether a general recommendation can be made regarding such things. Being that these are "personal computers", one can do with them as they wish. -- best regards, Neil |
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