diff --git a/extensions/git/src/timelineProvider.ts b/extensions/git/src/timelineProvider.ts
index e43a2a0b84f..f6e543257e2 100644
--- a/extensions/git/src/timelineProvider.ts
+++ b/extensions/git/src/timelineProvider.ts
@@ -166,8 +166,7 @@ export class GitTimelineProvider implements TimelineProvider {
 			if (showAuthor) {
 				item.description = c.authorName;
 			}
-			// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-			item.detail = `${c.authorName} (${c.authorEmail}) — ${c.hash.substr(0, 8)}\n${dateFormatter.format(date)}\n\n${message}`;
+			item.detail = `${c.authorName} (${c.authorEmail}) \u2014 ${c.hash.substr(0, 8)}\n${dateFormatter.format(date)}\n\n${message}`;
 
 			const cmd = this.commands.resolveTimelineOpenDiffCommand(item, uri);
 			if (cmd) {
@@ -192,8 +191,7 @@ export class GitTimelineProvider implements TimelineProvider {
 				// TODO@eamodio: Replace with a better icon -- reflecting its status maybe?
 				item.iconPath = new ThemeIcon('git-commit');
 				item.description = '';
-				// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-				item.detail = localize('git.timeline.detail', '{0}  — {1}\n{2}\n\n{3}', you, localize('git.index', 'Index'), dateFormatter.format(date), Resource.getStatusText(index.type));
+				item.detail = localize('git.timeline.detail', '{0}  \u2014 {1}\n{2}\n\n{3}', you, localize('git.index', 'Index'), dateFormatter.format(date), Resource.getStatusText(index.type));
 
 				const cmd = this.commands.resolveTimelineOpenDiffCommand(item, uri);
 				if (cmd) {
@@ -215,8 +213,7 @@ export class GitTimelineProvider implements TimelineProvider {
 				// TODO@eamodio: Replace with a better icon -- reflecting its status maybe?
 				item.iconPath = new ThemeIcon('git-commit');
 				item.description = '';
-				// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-				item.detail = localize('git.timeline.detail', '{0}  — {1}\n{2}\n\n{3}', you, localize('git.workingTree', 'Working Tree'), dateFormatter.format(date), Resource.getStatusText(working.type));
+				item.detail = localize('git.timeline.detail', '{0}  \u2014 {1}\n{2}\n\n{3}', you, localize('git.workingTree', 'Working Tree'), dateFormatter.format(date), Resource.getStatusText(working.type));
 
 				const cmd = this.commands.resolveTimelineOpenDiffCommand(item, uri);
 				if (cmd) {
diff --git a/extensions/typescript-language-features/src/utils/previewer.ts b/extensions/typescript-language-features/src/utils/previewer.ts
index a443efba037..c6d1c942050 100644
--- a/extensions/typescript-language-features/src/utils/previewer.ts
+++ b/extensions/typescript-language-features/src/utils/previewer.ts
@@ -90,8 +90,7 @@ function getTagDocumentation(
 				if (!doc) {
 					return label;
 				}
-				// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-				return label + (doc.match(/\r\n|\n/g) ? '  \n' + processInlineTags(doc) : ` — ${processInlineTags(doc)}`);
+				return label + (doc.match(/\r\n|\n/g) ? '  \n' + processInlineTags(doc) : ` \u2014 ${processInlineTags(doc)}`);
 			}
 	}
 
@@ -101,8 +100,7 @@ function getTagDocumentation(
 	if (!text) {
 		return label;
 	}
-	// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-	return label + (text.match(/\r\n|\n/g) ? '  \n' + text : ` — ${text}`);
+	return label + (text.match(/\r\n|\n/g) ? '  \n' + text : ` \u2014 ${text}`);
 }
 
 export function plainWithLinks(
diff --git a/src/vs/base/common/keybindingLabels.ts b/src/vs/base/common/keybindingLabels.ts
index 0c2f1a93468..62e905a4bb4 100644
--- a/src/vs/base/common/keybindingLabels.ts
+++ b/src/vs/base/common/keybindingLabels.ts
@@ -54,8 +54,7 @@ export class ModifierLabelProvider {
  */
 export const UILabelProvider = new ModifierLabelProvider(
 	{
-		// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-		ctrlKey: '⌃',
+		ctrlKey: '\u2303',
 		shiftKey: '⇧',
 		altKey: '⌥',
 		metaKey: '⌘',
diff --git a/src/vs/editor/browser/controller/textAreaState.ts b/src/vs/editor/browser/controller/textAreaState.ts
index 4c240bfd378..cf8846dbc02 100644
--- a/src/vs/editor/browser/controller/textAreaState.ts
+++ b/src/vs/editor/browser/controller/textAreaState.ts
@@ -172,8 +172,7 @@ export class TextAreaState {
 			if (potentialEmojiInput !== null && potentialEmojiInput.length > 0) {
 				// now we check that this is indeed an emoji
 				// emojis can grow quite long, so a length check is of no help
-				// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-				// e.g. 1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0065 E006E E0067 E007F  ; fully-qualified     # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
+				// e.g. 1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0065 E006E E0067 E007F  --  flag of England
 
 				// Oftentimes, emojis use Variation Selector-16 (U+FE0F), so that is a good hint
 				// http://emojipedia.org/variation-selector-16/
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/browser/workbench.contribution.ts b/src/vs/workbench/browser/workbench.contribution.ts
index bf60658ac0c..7dbe26ca935 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/browser/workbench.contribution.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/browser/workbench.contribution.ts
@@ -421,8 +421,7 @@ const registry = Registry.as<IConfigurationRegistry>(ConfigurationExtensions.Con
 			},
 			'window.titleSeparator': {
 				'type': 'string',
-				// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-				'default': isMacintosh ? ' — ' : ' - ',
+				'default': isMacintosh ? ' \u2014 ' : ' - ',
 				'markdownDescription': localize("window.titleSeparator", "Separator used by `window.title`.")
 			},
 			'window.menuBarVisibility': {
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/debug/browser/debugActionViewItems.ts b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/debug/browser/debugActionViewItems.ts
index 310e7549105..b68d7d7036c 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/debug/browser/debugActionViewItems.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/debug/browser/debugActionViewItems.ts
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ const $ = dom.$;
 
 export class StartDebugActionViewItem extends BaseActionViewItem {
 
-	// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-	private static readonly SEPARATOR = '─────────';
+	private static readonly SEPARATOR = '\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500';
 
 	private container!: HTMLElement;
 	private start!: HTMLElement;
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/extensions/browser/extensionEditor.ts b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/extensions/browser/extensionEditor.ts
index e3712271e12..b2d08fc2d68 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/extensions/browser/extensionEditor.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/extensions/browser/extensionEditor.ts
@@ -1550,10 +1550,8 @@ export class ExtensionEditor extends EditorPane {
 					$('td', undefined, l.id),
 					$('td', undefined, l.name),
 					$('td', undefined, ...join(l.extensions.map(ext => $('code', undefined, ext)), ' ')),
-					// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-					$('td', undefined, document.createTextNode(l.hasGrammar ? '✔︎' : '—')),
-					// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-					$('td', undefined, document.createTextNode(l.hasSnippets ? '✔︎' : '—'))
+					$('td', undefined, document.createTextNode(l.hasGrammar ? '✔︎' : '\u2014')),
+					$('td', undefined, document.createTextNode(l.hasSnippets ? '✔︎' : '\u2014'))
 				))
 			)
 		);
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/output/browser/outputView.ts b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/output/browser/outputView.ts
index 9db7a355a31..3ebd3590841 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/output/browser/outputView.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/output/browser/outputView.ts
@@ -271,8 +271,7 @@ export class OutputEditor extends AbstractTextResourceEditor {
 
 class SwitchOutputActionViewItem extends SelectActionViewItem {
 
-	// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-	private static readonly SEPARATOR = '─────────';
+	private static readonly SEPARATOR = '\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500';
 
 	private outputChannels: IOutputChannelDescriptor[] = [];
 	private logChannels: IOutputChannelDescriptor[] = [];
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/preferences/browser/settingsEditor2.ts b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/preferences/browser/settingsEditor2.ts
index f12bf278726..21ab9a92d6e 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/preferences/browser/settingsEditor2.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/preferences/browser/settingsEditor2.ts
@@ -1181,8 +1181,7 @@ export class SettingsEditor2 extends EditorPane {
 
 		const query = this.searchWidget.getValue().trim();
 		this.delayedFilterLogging.cancel();
-		// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-		await this.triggerSearch(query.replace(/›/g, ' '));
+		await this.triggerSearch(query.replace(/\u203A/g, ' '));
 
 		if (query && this.searchResultModel) {
 			this.delayedFilterLogging.trigger(() => this.reportFilteringUsed(query, this.searchResultModel!.getUniqueResults()));
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/preferences/browser/settingsTreeModels.ts b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/preferences/browser/settingsTreeModels.ts
index f70a5afeff2..ea6967e593d 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/preferences/browser/settingsTreeModels.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/preferences/browser/settingsTreeModels.ts
@@ -521,8 +521,7 @@ export function settingKeyToDisplayFormat(key: string, groupId = ''): { category
 
 function wordifyKey(key: string): string {
 	key = key
-		// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-		.replace(/\.([a-z0-9])/g, (_, p1) => ` › ${p1.toUpperCase()}`) // Replace dot with spaced '>'
+		.replace(/\.([a-z0-9])/g, (_, p1) => ` \u203A ${p1.toUpperCase()}`) // Replace dot with spaced '>'
 		.replace(/([a-z0-9])([A-Z])/g, '$1 $2') // Camel case to spacing, fooBar => foo Bar
 		.replace(/^[a-z]/g, match => match.toUpperCase()) // Upper casing all first letters, foo => Foo
 		.replace(/\b\w+\b/g, match => { // Upper casing known acronyms
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/terminal/browser/terminalActions.ts b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/terminal/browser/terminalActions.ts
index c292ceeb876..32699b858aa 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/terminal/browser/terminalActions.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/terminal/browser/terminalActions.ts
@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ import { ITerminalQuickPickItem } from 'vs/workbench/contrib/terminal/browser/te
 import { IThemeService } from 'vs/platform/theme/common/themeService';
 import { getIconId, getColorClass, getUriClasses } from 'vs/workbench/contrib/terminal/browser/terminalIcon';
 
-// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-export const switchTerminalActionViewItemSeparator = '─────────';
+export const switchTerminalActionViewItemSeparator = '\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500';
 export const switchTerminalShowTabsTitle = localize('showTerminalTabs', "Show Tabs");
 
 async function getCwdForSplit(configHelper: ITerminalConfigHelper, instance: ITerminalInstance, folders?: IWorkspaceFolder[], commandService?: ICommandService): Promise<string | URI | undefined> {
@@ -988,8 +987,7 @@ export function registerTerminalActions() {
 				const cwdLabel = labelService.getUriLabel(URI.file(term.cwd));
 				return {
 					label: term.title,
-					// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-					detail: term.workspaceName ? `${term.workspaceName} ⸱ ${cwdLabel}` : cwdLabel,
+					detail: term.workspaceName ? `${term.workspaceName} \u2E31 ${cwdLabel}` : cwdLabel,
 					description: term.pid ? String(term.pid) : '',
 					term
 				};
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/testing/browser/explorerProjections/display.ts b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/testing/browser/explorerProjections/display.ts
index c26642329d4..548ee8b1da8 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/testing/browser/explorerProjections/display.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/testing/browser/explorerProjections/display.ts
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@
  *  Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
  *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
-// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-export const flatTestItemDelimiter = ' › ';
+export const flatTestItemDelimiter = ' \u203A ';
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/services/keybinding/common/macLinuxKeyboardMapper.ts b/src/vs/workbench/services/keybinding/common/macLinuxKeyboardMapper.ts
index 988566b13e7..06df5b9e20a 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/services/keybinding/common/macLinuxKeyboardMapper.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/services/keybinding/common/macLinuxKeyboardMapper.ts
@@ -1022,19 +1022,15 @@ export class MacLinuxKeyboardMapper implements IKeyboardMapper {
 	private static _redirectCharCode(charCode: number): number {
 		switch (charCode) {
 			// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-			case CharCode.U_IDEOGRAPHIC_FULL_STOP: return CharCode.Period; // CJK 。 => .
-			// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-			case CharCode.U_LEFT_CORNER_BRACKET: return CharCode.OpenSquareBracket; // CJK 「 => [
-			// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-			case CharCode.U_RIGHT_CORNER_BRACKET: return CharCode.CloseSquareBracket; // CJK 」 => ]
-			// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-			case CharCode.U_LEFT_BLACK_LENTICULAR_BRACKET: return CharCode.OpenSquareBracket; // CJK 【 => [
-			// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-			case CharCode.U_RIGHT_BLACK_LENTICULAR_BRACKET: return CharCode.CloseSquareBracket; // CJK 】 => ]
-			// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-			case CharCode.U_FULLWIDTH_SEMICOLON: return CharCode.Semicolon; // CJK ； => ;
-			// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-			case CharCode.U_FULLWIDTH_COMMA: return CharCode.Comma; // CJK ， => ,
+			// CJK: 。 「 」 【 】 ； ，
+			// map: . [ ] [ ] ; ,
+			case CharCode.U_IDEOGRAPHIC_FULL_STOP: return CharCode.Period;
+			case CharCode.U_LEFT_CORNER_BRACKET: return CharCode.OpenSquareBracket;
+			case CharCode.U_RIGHT_CORNER_BRACKET: return CharCode.CloseSquareBracket;
+			case CharCode.U_LEFT_BLACK_LENTICULAR_BRACKET: return CharCode.OpenSquareBracket;
+			case CharCode.U_RIGHT_BLACK_LENTICULAR_BRACKET: return CharCode.CloseSquareBracket;
+			case CharCode.U_FULLWIDTH_SEMICOLON: return CharCode.Semicolon;
+			case CharCode.U_FULLWIDTH_COMMA: return CharCode.Comma;
 		}
 		return charCode;
 	}
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/services/search/common/getFileResults.ts b/src/vs/workbench/services/search/common/getFileResults.ts
index 91fe2623dfd..f2e81f913dd 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/services/search/common/getFileResults.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/services/search/common/getFileResults.ts
@@ -25,8 +25,7 @@ export const getFileResults = (
 		text = new TextDecoder('utf-16be').decode(bytes);
 	} else {
 		text = new TextDecoder('utf8').decode(bytes);
-		// allow-any-unicode-next-line
-		if (text.slice(0, 1000).includes('�') && bytes.includes(0)) {
+		if (text.slice(0, 1000).includes('\uFFFD') && bytes.includes(0)) {
 			return [];
 		}
 	}