Are you using macOS Tahoe? If so, this is an issue many people have hit, related to font corruption in Tahoe. More about this and some potential workarounds at: macOS Tahoe: Inline table text encoding error in RStudio with Quarto and Rmarkdown
Are you using macOS Tahoe? If so, this is an issue many people have hit, related to font corruption in Tahoe. More about this and some potential workarounds at: macOS Tahoe: Inline table text encoding error in RStudio with Quarto and Rmarkdown