Thank you for your suggestions. I actually used a script to actually delete the
font files, so I think they genuinely are moved at an OS level.

>It is pretty likely Windows doesn't delete fonts, but marks them as
>hidden. This may not be reflected in the list of fonts available to
>GIMP, if fontconfig - the library used to list and categorize fonts -
>either does not support this yet, or is not configured to do so.
>
>We got a similar bug report about fonts not being used due to language
>settings:
>
>https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641808
>
>
>What we need is for someone using the affected platform (or caring
>very
>much about it) to figure out how fontconfig can be made to honor these
>settings and/or the font state (i.e. them being hidden or not,
>respectively).
>
>This could be a configuration setting, or may require a code change in
>this library. Blacklisting arbitrary fonts based on some of their
>feature is possible, so this might be a matter of finding something
>these fonts have in common that is also recognized and understood by
>fontconfig.

-- 
TimH (via www.gimpusers.com/forums)
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