Weird font previews in text tools?

[OurJud]

(08-31-2018, 11:48 AM)rich2005 Wrote: These are standard foreign language fonts, (arabic, hebrew, chinese, etc. scripts) that come pre-installed by MS Windows.

They can be hidden for many applications by using the Windows font manager, but not for Gimp.

Ignore them if you can.

Thanks, rich, but not sure I understand. If I select one of these fonts, it doesn't change the text to Arabic or Chinese. They're all different typefaces, but still in English.