Theme-based character encoding issue

The issue resides within the CSS. I found the style block below baked in to the base stylesheet. Font-feature-settings, “gives you control over advanced typographic features in OpenType fonts.” “liga” refers to ligatures and dlig refers to discretionary ligatures. Both of which are included in OpenType font sets.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-feature-settings

https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/f/font-feature-settings/

p {
        -webkit-font-feature-settings: "liga", "dlig";
        -moz-font-feature-settings: "liga=1, dlig=1";
        -ms-font-feature-settings: "liga", "dlig";
        -o-font-feature-settings: "liga", "dlig";
        font-feature-settings: "liga", "dlig";
    }