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

thulium wrote:

How do you value

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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.

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

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.

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.

This may help:

http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html