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Originally Posted by HarryT
It seems a little contradictory. First the article says that the purpose of the font is to eliminate the problem of "this glyph isn't in the font" squares being displayed when you're reading something, but then later on it says that you can download different versions of the font containing different subsets of glyphs  . If you download a version that doesn't contain a glyph used in a text you're reading, the result will be precisely the problem that the font claims to be eliminating. |
Different versions are for people that aren't comfortable with downloading the entire 475MB package.
If you know you aren't going to need Balinese or Urdu or old runes characters, you can cherry pick what you really need.
By the way, Noto Serif alone supports 581 languages, 237 regions.