Re: Why are the asian fonts installed?

From: Alan Coopersmith (alanc_at_alum.calberkeley.org)
Date: 08/19/03 

Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 02:03:36 +0000 (UTC)

Akop Pogosian <akopps+usenet@ocf.berkeley.edu> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|Why is this happening? Granted, all of these languages are probably
|spoken here indeed.. My intention was to install only English language
|locales (e.g. C, en_US, en_UTF-8, etc)

I believe selecting any UTF-8 locale enables installation of all
relevant fonts since Solaris doesn't ship a unified Unicode font,
but makes font sets out of the fonts for each locale. 

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