EU4 cannot display accented letters in people and province names (example pic)

[Axiomatic]

Any time a province or person has some kind of special character in it, like Córdoba or something, the game cannot display the ó and instead displays something like a Ł½ instead.

This is less than ideal.

I've tried a reinstall and the problem persists.

 

[grotaclas]

Are you playing the tutorial? Its files have the wrong characters in them(which eu4 displays correctly), because they use the wrong encoding(UTF-8 instead of windows-1252). The normal game doesn't have that bug:

 

[Axiomatic]

Are you playing the tutorial? Its files have the wrong characters in them(which eu4 displays correctly), because they use the wrong encoding(UTF-8 instead of windows-1252). The normal game doesn't have that bug:
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...It IS the tutorial, yes. Let me recheck in the regular game.

...yes, you are absolutely right. That's exactly what the problem was. Excelent!