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.

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best regards,

Neil