Text encoding works strangely on (almost) any browser

[angst1437 (Alexander Kleptsov)]

Some characters (often long and short dashes) are displayed incorrectly on browsers, except Firefox, and being replaced by Cyrillic letters. Examples are on the screenshots:

en dash replaced by Ц and em dash replaced by Ч.

quotation marks replaced by С, Т, У, Ф, Л, Ы.
and so on.
I could have just switched to Firefox, but I’m used to Chromium-based browsers a lot and they’re more comfy to me.
Is there any solutions?

[barryascott]

Do the browsers have to guess the encoding?

Check the source of the page, does it have correct encoding defined?
Does that encoding match the contents of the page?

I would use curl to grab the page to check this out.
Also look at the HTTP headers returned.