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Asked: 2026-06-01T17:50:33+00:00

I’m sorry if this isn’t the right place to be posting a question like

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I’m sorry if this isn’t the right place to be posting a question like this, but I’m at wit’s end trying to figure out an answer. I don’t know if it’s an encoding issue or what, but on SO many web pages, Chrome won’t display some characters properly. Namely things like en and em dashes, elipses, etc.

Here’s an example.

encoding example

That O with the umlaut is supposed to be an ellipses. I don’t see the problem on Firefox, and I don’t see the problem on another computer with Chrome. Encoding is set to Auto-Detect and UTF-8. If I copy and paste the O with the umlaut, it pastes as an ellipses.

Any idea why this is happening and how I can fix it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If it pastes back as the expected character, then it is not an encoding problem – it rather would be a font problem: you likely have a font installed in your system that is being used by Chrome to display S.O. (and possibly other pages’ text). If this font is broken (like, it has an incorrect encoding declaration itself), this could happen.

    The workaround is finding out which is the offensive font and uninstall it from your system.

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