Displaying Hebrew Characters in Dev Gnumeric

[Akavia <uridavid netvision net il>]

Hello.
I have been using Gnumeric and I really like it.
I downloaded the development version of Gnumeric (via GARNOME). I still 
can't display hebrew - I only see it in the top area (the one with 
OK/CANCEL and the = sign) but not in the cells themselves. I see some 
kind of garbage (it looks like \XX for each letter, perhaps some kind of 
hex represantation).
What do I have to do in order to see hebrew characters - do I have to 
change the encoding of the fonts (like Abiword) or something like that?
(BTW, the same fonts show up as hebrew for gedit)

Thanks,
Uri David Akavia

(Who eagerly waits for gnumeric to support full hebrew so I can torture 
it with import/export of hebrew to excel and finally get rid of excel)