What specific version of Chrome are you running? I'm on latest and it looks fine to me.
This is definitely not a SUI bug. You should narrow it down to your config. May be smth with your codepage.
This is definitely not the case, I'm typing this from Chrome on Ubuntu right now, and form validations look fine.
If anyone stumbles on this, cold and alone in the far reaches of the internet like I did, you might want to check out this StackOverflow QA on this exact problem:
Add the following line to your HTML page:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
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Add the following line to your HTML page:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />