OK, I found a workaround for this problem - which seems similar to this issue.
Edit the /etc/default/console-setup file (sudo nano /etc/default/console-setup) and change the
to
CHARMAP="ISO-8859-1"then reboot. After that, the game should run with the correct characters.
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