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MrElvey

Q: Deleting foreign fonts safe?  (e.g /Library/Fonts/Hannotate.ttc -87MB)

I am creating some extra Mavericks install images, and went through looking for large files I might be able to delete.

 

In

/Library/Fonts

I find, among others: (with size in KB)

8024          Yu Gothic Medium.otf

8400          ヒラギノ明朝 Pro W6.otf

8448          ヒラギノ明朝 Pro W3.otf

8788          Xingkai.ttc

8972          华文黑体.ttf

9712          华文细黑.ttf

10612          华文仿宋.ttf

10868          WeibeiTC-Bold.otf

11588          WawaSC-Regular.otf

11624          WawaTC-Regular.otf

12872          Hiragino Sans GB W3.otf

12932          Hiragino Sans GB W6.otf

14720          Yuanti.ttc

15148          Arial Unicode.ttf

23496          WeibeiSC-Bold.otf

42184          Lantinghei.ttc

65468          Songti.ttc

69056          Kaiti.ttc

70216          Hanzipen.ttc

85112          Hannotate.ttc

 

Non-Asian speakers can probably do without all of these, save Arial Unicode (note:all non-Unicode variants of Arial are < 1/10 as big; possibly this isn't important either).

 

Apple helpfully notes:, "Important /System/Library/Fonts should never be disabled, because these items are used by OS X, and other integral applications." However, that's not where these are.


I wonder what if anything I'm breaking by eliminating these.  So far so good. 

MacBook, MBP, iBook G4 and many other models. (Xserve, MP), Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Nov 26, 2013 11:13 AM

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Q: Deleting foreign fonts safe?  (e.g /Library/Fonts/Hannotate.ttc -87MB)

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  • by MrElvey,

    MrElvey MrElvey Nov 26, 2013 11:50 AM in response to MrElvey
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    Nov 26, 2013 11:50 AM in response to MrElvey

    I also did this:

     

    trash () { /bin/mv "$@"  ~/.Trash/ ; }

    trash /Library/Dictionaries/Sanseido%20Super%20Daijirin.dictionary/

    trash /Library/Dictionaries/Korean%20-%20English.dictionary/

    trash /Library/Dictionaries/Simplified%20Chinese%20-%20English.dictionary/

    trash /Library/Dictionaries/Korean.dictionary/

    trash /Library/Dictionaries/Duden%20Dictionary%20Data%20Set%20I.dictionary/

    trash /Library/Dictionaries/Sanseido%20The%20WISDOM%20English-Japanese%20Japanese-Eng lish%20Dictionary.dictionary/

    trash /Library/Dictionaries/Italian.dictionary/

    trash /Library/Dictionaries/The%20Standard%20Dictionary%20of%20Contemporary%20Chinese .dictionary/

    trash /Library/Dictionaries/Diccionario%20General%20de%20la%20Lengua%20Española%20Vox .dictionary/

    trash /Library/Dictionaries/Multidictionnaire%20de%20la%20langue%20française.dictiona ry/

    trash /Library/Dictionaries/Dutch.dictionary/

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Nov 26, 2013 12:28 PM in response to MrElvey
    Level 9 (79,185 points)
    Nov 26, 2013 12:28 PM in response to MrElvey