Is anything being done to address this one way or the other?

Personally I like that I am able to display Arabic characters should I
find myself at an Arabic website, purely for aesthetic reasons (as I
cannot read Arabic, but hate seeing hex blocks).

Still, ttf-arabeyes is the biggest offender here when it comes to font
bloat.  A new Ubuntu user who, upon opening OpenOffice.org, encounters
dozens of fonts with cryptic names -- all of which look identical to
FreeSans, and all of which are stacked at the top of the font list due
to their names all beginning with "Al-" -- is bound to be confused.
Surely we can get away with providing only one or several Arabic fonts
by default, preferably named in such a way that it's clear what they're
there for.

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package should be split in daily use fonts and decoractive fonts
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42922
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