Comment 5 for bug 42922

Is anything being done to address this one way or the other?

Personally I like that I am able to display Arabic characters should I find myself at an Arabic website, purely for aesthetic reasons (as I cannot read Arabic, but hate seeing hex blocks).

Still, ttf-arabeyes is the biggest offender here when it comes to font bloat. A new Ubuntu user who, upon opening OpenOffice.org, encounters dozens of fonts with cryptic names -- all of which look identical to FreeSans, and all of which are stacked at the top of the font list due to their names all beginning with "Al-" -- is bound to be confused. Surely we can get away with providing only one or several Arabic fonts by default, preferably named in such a way that it's clear what they're there for.