Re: System fonts

[Pete French]

> That still does not explain why the default font should be changed,
> especially to the much-uglier FreeSans. It's unhinted, fuzzy, and generally
> a pain to look at, much less use.

All those points are true, but more ugly does not mean less useful.

> If you need non-Latin 1 characters (don't confuse this with encoding), use a
> different font.

Yes, but, aside from americans maybe, thats pretty much everyone on
the planet isnt it ? Defaults should be the most useful surely, not
necessarily the prettiest. Shipping a system with large chunks of characters
missing by default seems foolish when there is a workable alternative.

Even if it is a little fuzzy.

-bat.