[Bug 159261] Use Noto family fonts as default fonts for documents, bundle as needed for l10n

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159261

--- Comment #4 from V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> Liberation is compatible with Arial, Courier New, and Times New Roman. And
> while Windows does not use those font anymore, it breaks the layout if you
> open a legacy document without the font. And LibreOffice aims for
> compatibility.
> 
Not suggesting that the Liberation Sans, Mono, or Serif <==> Arial, Courier
New, Times New Roman equivalencies be eliminated. Liberation fonts should still
be bundled, just not preferred as defaults in templates for any locale. Their
Unicode coverage has been lacking and our i18n suffers by holding on to them as
defaults. In addition to elevating Noto in templates, the VCL.xcu could better
promote them by locale.

The UI work needed for bug 61134 and bug 96872 would greatly improve the
compatibility and interoperability UX dealing with font fallback issues.

> The summary should rather be "Use Noto family fonts as default fonts for
> documents".

Done.

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