Hebrew Characters Have gone bad

I’m totally shocked. After hours of trying things and testing, I finally found the “Settings” then “Readings” option below: “Encoding for pages and feeds”. After changing from UTF-7 to UTF-8, everything looks good again.

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And even stranger, after changing it to UTF-8, the option disappears from the page. According to WordPress site, this option was removed since release 3.5.

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