diff --git a/examples/companion_radio/ui-new/CharTestScreen.h b/examples/companion_radio/ui-new/CharTestScreen.h
index 72d2abbf..ffa9dca6 100644
--- a/examples/companion_radio/ui-new/CharTestScreen.h
+++ b/examples/companion_radio/ui-new/CharTestScreen.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #pragma once
-// Test screen that displays sample characters from various alphabets/scripts.
-// Useful for verifying transliteration and font coverage on experimental fonts.
+// Test screen that displays sample characters from various alphabets/scripts
+// to verify native font coverage (no transliteration — Lemon renders natively).
 
 class CharTestScreen : public UIScreen {
   UITask* _task;
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ public:
       display.setCursor(display.width() - 6, startY + (_visible - 1) * lineH);
       display.print("v");
     }
-    return 500;
+    return 2000;
   }
 
   bool handleInput(char c) override {
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ public:
   }
 };
 
-// Sample strings are printed as raw UTF-8 (no transliteration) to test native font coverage.
 // Lemon font covers U+0020–U+04FF: Latin, Greek and Cyrillic all render natively.
 const CharTestScreen::TestLine CharTestScreen::LINES[CharTestScreen::LINE_COUNT] = {
   { "PL", "ąćęłńóśźżĄĆĘŁŃ"  },  // Polish
@@ -65,5 +64,5 @@ const CharTestScreen::TestLine CharTestScreen::LINES[CharTestScreen::LINE_COUNT]
   { "TR", "çğışöüİŞĞ"          },  // Turkish
   { "LT", "āēīūģķļņŗėįų"      },  // Baltic (Latvian/Lithuanian)
   { "RU", "АБВГДЕЖЗабвгдеж"   },  // Cyrillic
-  { "GR", "\xCE\xB1\xCE\xB2\xCE\xB3\xCE\xB4\xCE\xB5\xCE\xB6\xCE\xB7\xCE\xB8\xCE\xB9\xCE\xBA" },  // Greek αβγδεζηθικ
+  { "GR", "αβγδεζηθικλμ"         },  // Greek
 };
diff --git a/src/helpers/ui/SH1106Display.cpp b/src/helpers/ui/SH1106Display.cpp
index c58870b3..9b61c587 100644
--- a/src/helpers/ui/SH1106Display.cpp
+++ b/src/helpers/ui/SH1106Display.cpp
@@ -41,21 +41,13 @@ void SH1106Display::startFrame(Color bkg)
 {
   display.clearDisplay(); // TODO: apply 'bkg'
   _color = SH110X_WHITE;
-  display.setTextColor(_color);
-  display.setTextSize(1);
-  display.cp437(true); // Use full 256 char 'Code Page 437' font
 }
 
 void SH1106Display::setTextSize(int sz)
 {
   _text_size = (uint8_t)sz;
-  if (sz == 1) {
-    display.setFont(nullptr);  // use default font path; we override print() ourselves
-    display.setTextSize(1);
-  } else {
-    display.setFont(nullptr);
-    display.setTextSize(sz);
-  }
+  display.setFont(nullptr);
+  display.setTextSize(sz);
 }
 
 void SH1106Display::setColor(Color c)
diff --git a/src/helpers/ui/SH1106Display.h b/src/helpers/ui/SH1106Display.h
index 17b26a96..cc543431 100644
--- a/src/helpers/ui/SH1106Display.h
+++ b/src/helpers/ui/SH1106Display.h
@@ -50,11 +50,4 @@ public:
   void setBrightness(uint8_t level) override;
   void endFrame() override;
 
-  // UTF-8 is handled natively in print() — no substitution needed
-  void translateUTF8ToBlocks(char* dest, const char* src, size_t dest_size) override {
-    size_t len = strlen(src);
-    if (len >= dest_size) len = dest_size - 1;
-    memcpy(dest, src, len);
-    dest[len] = '\0';
-  }
 };