ae_blabla fonts in OpenOffice, what are they good for?

[Alexander van Loon]

In OO's font selection, I see a lot of fonts which have the ae_ prefix, but they all seem very similar. What are they good for? I suspect they are used to display non-Latin scripts? What ever they are, for a western user like me they don't add anything, just a bunch of fonts which are looking very familiar, so maybe those fonts could be removed?

Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'openoffice'; however, that package was not published in Ubuntu.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

These are fonts containing arab glyphs. Remove the ttf-arabeyes package, so they won't appear anymore. but then you won't see these glyphs as well, when viewing i.e. websites and documents using these fonts/glyphs.

[Alexander van Loon (avanloon)]

Ok, thanks for the information.

In that case, wouldn't it be better to hide the arabic fonts for western users? The majority of western users probably won't need to type in arabic sript, and most likely they won't visit arabic websites. They don't need them, and it is annoying for them that they are displayed in the OpenOffice.org font selector.

During the installation, maybe ask the user if they want to install these fonts? Or even better, maybe give an option in OpenOffice.org to hide these fonts in the font selector?