Mail: incoming message text all turned to fractions? What did I do?

Hello,
I'm by no means a power user, but I can take direct instruction well.
My Mail app displays the text of incoming email content as lots of tiny, closely kerned fractions (rather than English).
This came about after I tinkered with some special character settings in a settings panel reached through the GTD app called "Things". There was mention in that application's tutorials of applying special characters to tags. I happily went along in what I thought was a "Things"-specific Character panel - it must have been a system panel. I'm assuming that I inadvertently altered some default language display settings system wide, that affect Mail (and strangely Adobe CS3's Help Application, too).
I went back to "Things" to manually undo whatever I had done, removing a few special characters from the classification of favorites that I had assigned them in that character panel, but to no avail.
Does anyone know of a way to reset language settings that would affect Mail?
I'd go quick to work with any suggestions!
Thank you.

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