Some characters (like accented ones) are messed up

Look at this:
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Also
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First one is accented (a google search for produce), the second one is strikethrough text on medium (https://medium.com/@ivanaugustobd/your-terminal-can-be-much-much-more-productive-5256424658e8)

These issues happened since I changed my font to nunito on my manjaro os (I did get it from google fonts), but changing it to something else has no effect. I downloaded brave from the manjaro repository (sudo pacman -S brave)
The firefox browser does not have this issue, but chromium (NOT chrome) does, therefore this seems to be a chromium issue. I’m hoping I can still get assistance here, though.
The brave version I have as reported by manjaro’s software manager:
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As reported by brave itself:


:confounded:
I’m at a loss for what is going on.

even electron apps have this so it seems to not be anything related. closing here, will ask my distro’s forum