Compress ttf files

[bparanj]

I have custom fonts in app/assets/fonts directory in my Rails 4.2.5 app. I see configuration[:apache][:gzip_types] in apache.rb that generates this file:

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

          # these are known to be safe with MSIE 6

          AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml

          # everything else may cause problems with MSIE 6

          AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css

          AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript application/javascript application/ecmascript

          AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml

</IfModule>

on the server. So gzip is enabled by default on the server. My question is how do I add ttf font files to the gzip compression list? Should I say:

  configure({

    :apache => [ 'ttf'  ]

   })

in the application manifest file? TIA.