[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 #6 from John Mills <jmills59 at yahoo.com> ---
(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.
> 
> The summary should rather be "Use Noto family fonts as default fonts for
> documents".

I think that broad compatibility with Microsoft office is essential for the
billions of documents used worldwide. I personally have zero issue with the
default fonts and do not find them ugly. 

If anything isn't in the best interests of Linux and Mac users to default to
the liberation fonts? They might not be default in Office but they are still
very broadly used and in every shipping version of Windows since Vista.

In this theme do we have metric compatible versions of the default Microsoft
fonts that should be in the install by default?

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