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Is that right to say that Arial doesn't support Chinese characters?
There are a few Chinese websites that uses font-family: Arial. However that doesn't mean that the Chinese characters are in Arial. The English characters will be displayed in Arial and the Chinese characters will ignore Arial and use the default Chinese character on a PC which is Simsun.
Am I right?
A quick Character Map check on Arial also doesn't reveal Chinese characters in the font.
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Arial supports up to 144 different languages such as Urdu, Arabic, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Russian, Persian, German, French, Turkish, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Kurdish (Latin), Azerbaijani (Latin), Azerbaijani (Cyrillic), Romanian, Dutch, Greek Polytonic, Greek, Hungarian, Serbian (Latin), Czech, Serbian ...
The Microsoft font Tahoma has support for both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese characters. One of the most comprehensive Unicode fonts for Windows is Microsoft's Arial Unicode MS.
Embedded in version 3.0 of the OpenType version of Arial is the following description of the typeface: A contemporary sans serif design, Arial contains more humanist characteristics than many of its predecessors and as such is more in tune with the mood of the last decades of the twentieth century.
Arial does not have any Chinese characters; see MS description of Arial, which lists the writing systems supported. When a page declares font-family: Arial and contains Chinese characters, those characters will be taken from the browser’s default font, which is usually SimSun on Windows systems, or (if not found there) from another font in the system, using a browser-dependent method of scanning through fonts.
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