Fonts

[Rekusu]

Yes, it's me again,

Why are there so many foreign language fonts that cannot be removed or deleted? It is not possible the Korean is a system language font.

I have been searching and see I am not the only one who wants to remove them. I know; they don't take up much space, but when scrolling fonts in Word, there are hundreds I don't need and will never use.

Is there some secret way to eliminate with extreme prejudice?

Thanks and toodle pip

[Steve R Jones]

Did you that when looking at the list of FONTS, you can for example type the letter N and you'll be transported in time right to where the N fonts begin.

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I too typically only use English language fonts but I do LOTS of reading news, blogs and social media sites from around the world and do a lot of surfing to research all sorts of interesting things and occasionally use basic photoshop type programs to create amusing, usually politically oriented memes. If I did not have all those foreign fonts installed then any time I clicked a link to a foreign language website then all I'd see are tiny squares instead of letters. Lots and lots of tiny squares. I'd rather have the actual words/letters.

I also occasionally use foreign words or phrases in my memes. Wouldn't be able to do that if I were to delete those fonts.

And I sometimes get responses in discussion groups from people who speak foreign languages. If I was not able to see the fonts of the language in which they're responding in order to paste them into a whatever>english translation site then that too would be very annoying.

[Rekusu]

Likewise, I do quite a lot of web surfing, but I don't think my XP os has so many weird fonts installed and I have not knowingly ever encountered an issue.

I will work my way through them; I have found that it is possible with some, to change the security setting to take full control and then delete. But others will not allow that so guess I have no choice. Perhaps I will hide them so hopefully they do not get listed in Word.