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hebrew text displays as gibberish

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Shmu26
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I received an email message in hebrew that displays like this

òëùéå àúí éëåìéí ìäëðéñ àú äæîðúëí äøàùåðä àáì ÷åãí ëì îñôø ôøèéí çùåáéí.

Instead of in hebrew characters. In Gmail, and in MS Outlook, it displays properly.

This is a new installation of Thunderbird and I am using default settings for fonts.

Thunderbird 68.8.0 (32-bit) on Windows 10 1903

EDIT: So I installed this add-on

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/bidi-mail-ui/

and it pretty much fixes the problem. The only remaining issue, which is relatively minor, is I still see gibberish when the message comes up in the search pane

I received an email message in hebrew that displays like this òëùéå àúí éëåìéí ìäëðéñ àú äæîðúëí äøàùåðä àáì ÷åãí ëì îñôø ôøèéí çùåáéí. Instead of in hebrew characters. In Gmail, and in MS Outlook, it displays properly. This is a new installation of Thunderbird and I am using default settings for fonts. Thunderbird 68.8.0 (32-bit) on Windows 10 1903 EDIT: So I installed this add-on https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/bidi-mail-ui/ and it pretty much fixes the problem. The only remaining issue, which is relatively minor, is I still see gibberish when the message comes up in the search pane

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Matt
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-database So your existing gibberish can be reindexed.