Font mappings on Solaris

Hello,
I am facing a problem with font mappings for Oracle Reports on Unix (Sun Solaris).
I have the following "Arial Unicode MS" font installed on the Solaris Server, and wish to use it in my reports in the RTF outputs generated.
/etc/openwin/fontadm_fonts/Arialuni.ttf
The PATH variable of Solaris has been has been set to include the above "/etc/openwin/fontadm_fonts"
The TK2_FONTALIAS environment variable has been set to point to the "uifont.ali" file which has the following mapping
"Arial Unicode MS" = "Arialuni.ttf"
However, the RTF files generated are with the Courier Font.
Using any of the following mappings does not work:
"Arial Unicode MS" = "Arialuni"
"Arial Unicode MS" = "arial unicode ms"
"Arial Unicode MS" = helvetica
utf8 = helvetica
Any help in this would be appreciated.
Regards.

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