Arial Unicode Ms Italic |best|

By the late 1990s, the computing world was transitioning from localized 8-bit character encodings (like ASCII and various ISO standards) to Unicode. However, the fonts bundled with operating systems were fragmented; a user might have a font for English, another for Japanese, and yet another for Cyrillic. This resulted in "tofu" (□) characters when documents moved between systems.

| Feature | Detail | |---------|--------| | | ~51,000 | | Unicode coverage | Very wide (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, CJK, many symbols) | | Italic style | True italic (slanted, redesigned glyphs, not just oblique) | | File name | ARIALUNI.TTF (regular), but italic is part of the same font family (style group). | arial unicode ms italic