Not always. Many characters in Arabic are modified by the characters before and after them in cursive script and this is usually beyond most fonts.

Or at least in the state of New South Wales, where the Foundation Style is the script that has been taught in schools for at least 15 years.

http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/parents/k6writing.html

Foundation script was introduced to ensure that students produced a readable handwritten script and in the expectation that most future "writing" would be done at a keyboard. (Although I have spoken to Board of Studies people who deprecate keyboard skills, saying that we have to anticipate true speech recognition in a few years time).

Type I As/NZS rules by sheer weight of numbers.

Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, various Pacific island nations, widely used in Argentina and Uruguay and, oh yes, China ( or at least large parts of it.