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Special characters not displaying correctly
Here's a comparison between Firefox and Opera 11.52 for Windows and what I'm seeing. This started not long ago and affects every page on the web. I'm not forcing any special encoding or have changed any display properties in the configuration of Opera.The weird thing is: If I copy the text that's being displayed incorrectly, Windows pastes the correct character. For instance, copying Appleís from Opera, and pasting it anywhere else yields Apple’s, the correct character.
Any ideas?
This is usually a site encoding problem. Check the settings in Page, Encoding submenu. Try Automatic or UTF-8. Check the page's source code to see what it should be.
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Digg suffers form it for me. It forces UTF-8 on its headers. I can't override that in Opera unless it's not forced in the source, correct?
It affects my work machine, but not my home machine. If it was page encoding, it'd be a problem on all browsers. If it was a font issue, it would show on all browsers. If it was a Windows problem, it should show everywhere. The fact I can copy and paste the *correct* symbol leads me to think it's an Opera display problem.
It's specific to Opera and Opera alone on that machine. I can't figure it out.
It affects my work machine, but not my home machine. If it was page encoding, it'd be a problem on all browsers. If it was a font issue, it would show on all browsers. If it was a Windows problem, it should show everywhere. The fact I can copy and paste the *correct* symbol leads me to think it's an Opera display problem.
It's specific to Opera and Opera alone on that machine. I can't figure it out.
I figured it out. Turns out that when joining the computer to the domain at work, a few fonts are installed (all Helvetica). Certain websites use Helvetica to display their content. I inspected Digg.com using Dragonfly in Opera and saw that it was calling "Helvetica Neue" to display its text. I removed those fonts from the machine and it works. I'm still not sure why only Opera was affected by this as none of the other browsers show this effect.
You can always override the encoding, but the result may not make sense. To force the current page to a different encoding go to (menu) > Page > Encoding and select the encoding you want. Remember that you made this selection though, and to set it back to Auto or whatever when you leave the site. Likewise if you always want to view a site with a certain encoding you can choose it in Site Prefs (which of course would only apply to that site).