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Q: How to delete all asian and arabic fonts at one go?

After an installation of 10.11.4 there are by default more than hundred fonts.

 

Many of them are fonts with asian and arabic glyphs.

I never need any of them.

 

The language of my GUI is German.

 

In the font app there's no "operator" "does not contain".

 

So I can't choose all languages which do not contain the property "German".

 

I tried that:

 

1 Create a new empty collection.

2 Mark all fonts

3 Copy all fonts into the collection

4 Mark all fonts

5 Rightclick

 

Result:

The function "deactivate" ist grayed.

 

Question:

How can I delete/deactivated these huge amount of asian and arabic fonts at one go?

I don't want to choose them each by each.

 

Thanks for your help.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Posted on May 10, 2016 11:18 PM

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Q: How to delete all asian and arabic fonts at one go?

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  • by D.Cohen,Apple recommended

    D.Cohen D.Cohen May 11, 2016 12:59 AM in response to thulium
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    May 11, 2016 12:59 AM in response to thulium

    Look at this article. This information may help you. Mac Basics: Font Book - Apple Support

  • by Rysz,Apple recommended

    Rysz Rysz May 11, 2016 10:22 AM in response to thulium
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    May 11, 2016 10:22 AM in response to thulium

    As a rule, you can't delete System fonts. Also remember that deleting fonts that are part of OS X installation, will be re-installed with the next system upgrade.

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke May 11, 2016 10:25 AM in response to thulium
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    May 11, 2016 10:25 AM in response to thulium
  • by thulium,

    thulium thulium May 11, 2016 10:50 AM in response to D.Cohen
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    May 11, 2016 10:50 AM in response to D.Cohen

    @D.Cohen

    Thanks for the hint. But I read that article before I posted. It does no contain information to solve my issue.

     

    @Rysz

    Thanks. I know that you cannot delete System fonts.

    But how I can solve my issue please?

     

    @all by curiousity:

     

    How do you value

    a

    the decision of apple to install all that asian and arabic fonts in an installation of a non asian/arabic localization (like german).

    Is it useful for the most users who choose such a localization?

    b

    the decision of apple not to offer any way to get rid of that fonts at one go?

  • by thulium,

    thulium thulium May 11, 2016 10:53 AM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    May 11, 2016 10:53 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

    @Tom Gewecke

    Thanks for your hint.

    But I can't see an information about my issue in the headers of the article of your posted link.

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke May 11, 2016 11:22 AM in response to thulium
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    May 11, 2016 11:22 AM in response to thulium

    thulium wrote:

    Thanks for your hint.

    But I can't see an information about my issue in the headers of the article of your posted link.

     

    It tells you how you to remove system/library level fonts and which ones not to do that with, which includes one for Chinese.

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke May 11, 2016 11:36 AM in response to thulium
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    May 11, 2016 11:36 AM in response to thulium

    thulium wrote:

     

     

    How do you value

    a

    the decision of apple to install all that asian and arabic fonts in an installation of a non asian/arabic localization (like german).

    Is it useful for the most users who choose such a localization?

     

     

    OS X is the same no matter where it is sold.  You can't install just one localization of OS X, you have to install all of them.  Changing to one of the 34 languages takes a few seconds via preference settings.  For Apple overseas sales to places where non-Latin scripts are used, like China, are very important, so they try to make setting up and using their devices in such areas as simple as possible.  I think they also have little interest in providing ways to remove such things, as it can just cause problems with their update processes.

     

    You can ask Apple for the feature you want via

     

    http://www.apple.com/feedback

     

    but I don't think there is any way to remove fonts "at one go" via Font Book.  Whether some other font manager offers that, I don't know.  The link I provided has reviews of some font managers.

  • by thulium,

    thulium thulium May 11, 2016 4:02 PM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    May 11, 2016 4:02 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

    I have absolutely no idea, why Apple does not change the set of fonts which are activated depending on the localization the user chooses.

     

    In my humble view it is bad usability. Very bad.

     

    Well, it seems, I am alone with that view here.