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Q: Foreign Fonts

I'd like to disable some of the foreign fonts that always show up in my fonts list in adobe programs. Is this possible? Is it safe to do?

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), 30"; Cinema Display

Posted on Jan 12, 2015 8:06 AM

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  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Oct 14, 2015 11:35 AM in response to kahjot
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    Oct 14, 2015 11:35 AM in response to kahjot

    kahjot wrote:

     

    Why something Asian is now tucked away in Apple Braille

     

    Can you explain what you mean by that?  When I look at any of the Apple Braille fonts in Font Book > Repertoire I do not see anything other than Braille characters.

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang Oct 14, 2015 11:49 AM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Oct 14, 2015 11:49 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

    Hi Tom,

     

    Yes, even AppleSDGothicNeo made no sense to use for the Keyboard Viewer in Yosemite (for English users, anyway). I just meant why bother to change it yet again? Back in Lion, these were the only fonts you needed in the System folder:

     

    Apple Color Emoji.ttf

    AppleGothic.ttf

    Courier.dfont

    Geneva.dfont

    Helvetica.dfont

    HelveticaNeue.dfont

    HelveticaNeueDeskUI.ttc

    Keyboard.ttf

    LastResort.ttf

    LucidaGrande.ttc

    MarkerFelt.ttc

    Menlo.ttc

    Monaco.dfont

    Symbol.ttf

    Times.dfont

     

    The Keyboard Viewer displayed just fine without AppleSDGothicNeo, which Apple made the change to in Mountain Lion. That I recall, AppleGothic is also mainly for Korean text. So why the change to AppleSDGothicNeo, and change yet again to ArialHB in El Capitan?

     

    I imagine there's a reason for it in there somewhere. No idea what Apple's decisions for that would be, though.

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Oct 14, 2015 11:55 AM in response to Kurt Lang
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    Oct 14, 2015 11:55 AM in response to Kurt Lang

    It certainly is strange.  It would surprise me if either of those fonts contained all the characters which keyboard viewer needs to display for all the latin keyboard layouts supplied with OS X.  I presume something else gets used for non-latin scripts....

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