Removing foreign language fonts

Hello,

The rationality behind this is that the User Interface fonts should be System Folder Protected, and content fonts should not, so, some foreign fonts (such as Aparajita to write Indian Devanagari) are System Folder Protected when they should not (at least not on a English Windows 7). We are currently working towards a better experience uninstalling in box fonts.The alternative is to hide the fonts rather than removing them, but for the moment that solution just works on in box apps like Wordpad. We are also looking forward to make this solution available to all Apps.

Regarding the question about which are the truly important fonts for Win7, that would depend on the Win7 display language.

So having said this, I would not recommend uninstalling any System Protected font (since the system is not designed for this and there are things that depend on them).

I hope this info is useful for you.

-Gyan

It is useful to some degree, but in one sense you haven't stated anything particularly new. From Windows' inception, there have ALWAYS been fonts that should be left alone (I'm sure I'm not the only person who's been using Windows since version 3). I UNDERSTAND that. To answer the one question, I am obviously using a US English language setup. So with that in mind - why in the WORLD should a font for Urdu or Khmer be considered System Folder Protected since it has NOTHING to do with the User Interface of this version? I can understand this rationale if I change to a different country's edition (though why I would do that being a native English speaker, I have no idea) - but this serves only to infuriate and confuse folks like myself who wish to keep their systems lean. To keep several hundred megabytes of space continually occupied by fonts that have no possible reason for existence to the average user was a rather poorly conceived idea, if I may say so. I have no problem with keeping Times, Arial, Segoe UI, or any font that might be applicable to the UI of the version I have installed - but this is just plain ridiculous.

Which brings me right back to my question in my last post. Since I AM USING the English version - again, which fonts are important to THIS UI? I truly do not believe that Aparajita has any possible connection to any portion of the US English version UI - but obviously there are some that do and as of yet I have not been able to find any official mention of which fonts are truly system-required and which are not. The only documentation I see thus far is the general list of what fonts ship with Windows 7, which isn't the same thing.

Having said all that - I do wish to thank you for the confirmation that at least for now, "hiding" the fonts is pretty much useless. Those of us who HAVE tried to "hide" them already knew that, but it's nice to hear that officially acknowledged.

I too find it fairly puzzling why Asian/Middles East/Arabic font sets even show up in the fonts folder of an English lingo system? - why are those installed by default at all? Logically it should be optional (manual add) at best. The deeper you look into Win7 the more you get annoyed by useless features, sorry, I have to say that!

I too find it fairly puzzling why Asian/Middles East/Arabic font sets even show up in the fonts folder of an English lingo system? - why are those installed by default at all? Logically it should be optional (manual add) at best.

EXACTLY!! In defense of Windows 7 I must say that I like the OS overall (the Libraries concept just doesn't make sense to me, but that's another topic). This font thing, however, has me scratching my head in befuddlement - WHY ARE THEY HERE in this language pack at ALL with the user given no choice to NOT add them?