"Michael Santovec" wrote:

Is the problem just with incoming messages or also with messages that
you are composing?

Just with incoming messages and some letters in some forums (IE6). No
problems writing.

Is the encoding option not opening, or not offering the option that you
want or not letting you select the option that you want or something
else?

It opens and is again offering me all three Hebrew options, but the
different options just change the text from one sort of jibberish to another.

Is the problem that the whole message gibberish, or just some
characters?

In the problematic messages, the whole message is gibberish.

You mention changing the default font. Did you also change the default
encoding in Tools, Options, Read, International settings?

That setting has "Default encoding: Windows (Hebrew)", but the "Windows
(Hebrew)" in the box is grayed out and there are no other options ie no way
to change anything. I'm not sure whether to check or uncheck "Use default
encoding for all other messages" because 99% of my emails are in English and
my interface is in English--so I thought that might slow the computer
unnecessarily. In either case, the gibberish remains.
I had set Windows Hebrew as the encoding default in OEOptionsFonts.

Old emails which were perfectly fine before (in Hebrew) in my OE are now
gibberish. Other old emails have remained fine (ie in Hebrew).

The problem is in forums in IE6 as well....Letters from a regular
contributor in a Yahoo group whose letters were fine in the past are now
gibberish when they came to me in OE . I checked it on the Yahoo group site
and it is gibberish there too....

Thanks for the help!
J.