diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c9bbe337..981fea39 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/) and the [Keep
 
 > Looking for the history of changes from upstream [elixirs/faker](https://github.com/elixirs/faker) (versions through `0.19.0-alpha.1`)? See [CHANGELOG-PRE-1.0.md](CHANGELOG-PRE-1.0.md).
 
+## Unreleased
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Apply [upstream PR fix](https://github.com/elixirs/faker/pull/633) for string character encoding in Elixir 1.20.0 
+
 ## [1.2.0](https://github.com/artkay/fakerer/compare/v1.1.0...v1.2.0) (2026-05-17)
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/lib/faker/string.ex b/lib/faker/string.ex
index 8ba9cc4b..cd01e709 100644
--- a/lib/faker/string.ex
+++ b/lib/faker/string.ex
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ defmodule Faker.String do
     "!@#$%^&*()`~",
     "\u0001\u0002\u0003\u0004\u0005\u0006\u0007\b\u000e\u000f\u0010\u0011\u0012\u0013\u0014\u0015\u0016\u0017\u0018\u0019\u001a\u001b\u001c\u001d\u001e\u001f",
     "€‚ƒ„†‡ˆ‰Š‹ŒŽ‘’“”•–—˜™š›œžŸ",
-    "\t\u000b\f…             ​\u2028\u2029  　",
+    "\t\u000B\f\x85\u0020\u1680\u2000\u2001\u2002\u2003\u2004\u2005\u2006\u2007\u2008\u2009\u200A\u200B\u2028\u2029\u202F\u205F\u3000",
     "­؀؁؂؃؄؅۝܏‎‏\u202A\u202B\u202C\u202D\u202E⁢⁣⁤\u2066\u2067\u2068\u2069𑂽𛲠𛲡𛲢𛲣𝅳𝅴𝅵𝅶𝅷𝅸𝅹𝅺󠀁󠀠󠀡󠀢󠀣󠀤󠀥󠀦󠀧󠀨󠀩󠀪󠀫󠀬󠀭󠀮󠀯󠀰󠀱󠀲󠀳󠀴󠀵󠀶󠀷󠀸󠀹󠀺󠀻󠀼󠀽󠀾󠀿󠁀󠁁󠁂󠁃󠁄󠁅󠁆󠁇󠁈󠁉󠁊󠁋󠁌󠁍󠁎󠁏󠁐󠁑󠁒󠁓󠁔󠁕󠁖󠁗󠁘󠁙󠁚󠁛󠁜󠁝󠁞󠁟󠁠󠁡󠁢󠁣󠁤󠁥󠁦󠁧󠁨󠁩󠁪󠁫󠁬󠁭󠁮󠁯󠁰󠁱󠁲󠁳󠁴󠁵󠁶󠁷󠁸󠁹󠁺󠁻󠁼󠁽󠁾󠁿",
     "",
     "￾",