Strange characters when receiving mail in mail.app

Hi,
I am having an issue with certain e-mails in mail.app cannot be read due to very strange charachers.
I have already seen that problem with entourage and it's just the matter of deleting a font cache but here I cannot seem to get around it..
Any idea someone?
Cheers
Ben

Sometimes these problems are caused by the fonts Times Phonetic and Helvetica Fractions. Delete them if you have them.
Or it could be an encoding issue. Send a screen shot if you want (tom at bluesky dot org).

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