Font Specifications and Notes

Source: Developed by Microsoft Corporation and supplied with the latest versions of Microsoft Office (2000, XP, and 2003). Also available with Microsoft's FrontPage 2000 and Publisher 20002.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 50,377 glyphs and no kerning pairs.
Support: This large font includes support for the following languages: Arabic script (Arabic including some dialect-specfic letters, Balochi, Persian, Punjabi Shahmukhi, Urdu), Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Georgian (Mkhedruli & Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Kannada, Korean (Hangul only), Latin, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese.
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Farsi, Urdu), Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic (default, Japanese, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional), Kana (default, Japanese), Kannada, Korean, Tamil.

Note: Though it comes with MS Office, Arial Unicode MS is not automatically installed onto your PC, but must be added as a part of the "International Support" features. See Microsoft support for more details on how to install this particular font.