“I only have 2000 letters!” … 2000 including 200 accent characters made it 2200 characters, not 2000.
Or, you could count it in Unicode characters, and not in whatever bizarro charset you're using over there. Then "À" is one character, just as it's supposed to be.
The problem typically comes from improper conversion between charsets. Like Windows-1252 to Unicode, or something equally horrible.
I think the last time when you could do that was 25 or 30 years ago. Nowadays, you're just going to enter a world of endless pain, suffering and frustration.
You can do it as an experiment if you want to experience how bad it is. Do it on something isolated that you won't mind setting fire to afterwards.
I never played it in PVP but the co-op modes are fine with Survival being my favourite. I've been playing this game as well as the previous version for years and it's been quite fun. Also it runs fine on Linux.
Nowadays, that's a very dynamic list...