I’ve finally fixed a decade old problem. Well. It has been fixed for years but I’ve never properly implemented the solution. Years ago, to display say Chinese characters in a web page, I used a tool like Richwin. Crappy tool. I’ve suspected that modern browers can display these characters natively for years but never figured out how. Turns out I was just missing a unicode font. All I needed was arialuni.ttf installed and everything works easy as pie.