LibreOffice has a top-notch font selector. But why should I waste my time scrolling through 100+ languages I have zero interest in, every single time I want to select a font?
I propose that the users’ time and choice should be respected. If a user doesn’t need a font, it should not be installed.
We might prevent a tiny minority of users from “running into fonts related issues”, while the vast majority has to sift through this crap (sorry) on a daily basis, when the simple installer checkbox I proposed, “install fonts for [all] other regions”, would solve the problem. As to its implementation, whether to repackage Noto, I have no input. Conceptually though, I believe this would be a really good solution.
In its simplest Pareto-style form, so that the installer doesn’t have to map locales to font packages, there could be a radio button choice:
- Install all fonts
- Install only Latin fonts
I’d be perfectly happy with Latin-only fonts.