Vista - What are these fonts?

Does anyone know when/why MS gave us a bunch of fonts such as "Batang &
BatangChe & Gungsuh & GungsuhChe" and "Microsoft YaHei?" There are many
more of these strange looking font names in my fonts folder and each font
takes up > 15,000,000 bytes. I tried to delete 1 or 2 of them but that's a
no can do. Was there a specific "hotfix" we applied and what is/are the
reason(s) for these fonts?

Those are standard fonts that originally came with Vista and cannot be
removed.

jimrx4 wrote:

Mea Culpa - blame it on old age!


"Leroy" <leroy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"jimrx4" <jimrx4@xxxxxx> wrote:
Why are you fooling around in the Fonts directory anyway? Are you
short on disk space? If so, eliminating 15Mb of space is hardly going
to be of much consequence.

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:49:41 -0400, "jimrx4" <jimrx4@xxxxxx>
wrote:
The reason the names are so funky is that you can't copyright a font's
appearance - but you can copyright the name. So MS chooses oddball
names and gets exclusive copyright (I'm not sure why they care as
those fonts are nothing to write home about). If you double click on
the font files and look at them they are actually rather conventional.

The huge size for each one (15mb) vs a more normal font (10-800K) is a
little harder to account for. Even professionally hinted fonts don't
get anywhere near that size. More MS efficiency at work.

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:29:36 +0100, "Synapse Syndrome [KGB]"
<synapse@xxxxxx> wrote:
Still pissed off that I proved you wrong about Startup Control Panel,
eh?

It's OK, you can admit that you were wrong. It will help you move on.