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Yes, I knew that ... the question is which symbols. It could be that you've selected the wrong encoding - like say, Chinese instead of Western European - and Opera is unable to make sense of the page in that encoding. It could be (if it is only some pages) that the server is sending you compressed data and for some reason Opera isn't uncompressing it (a network error or server misconfiguration most likely). Several possibilities, a picture would be clearer.
Check under:
View > Encoding (regular file menu)
or Opera-button > Page > Encoding (new file menu)
It should have Automatic selection selected. If it's just some sites that have symbols, it might be that the site itself does not have any encoding specified, and Opera thus chooses the wrong language. I often experience the issue with Japanese Shift-JIS pages.
If it already is at Automatic selection, try to visit the page, and set encoding to Unicode > UTF-8 or Western European > ISO-8859-1 and tell us if that works.
View > Encoding (regular file menu)
or Opera-button > Page > Encoding (new file menu)
It should have Automatic selection selected. If it's just some sites that have symbols, it might be that the site itself does not have any encoding specified, and Opera thus chooses the wrong language. I often experience the issue with Japanese Shift-JIS pages.
If it already is at Automatic selection, try to visit the page, and set encoding to Unicode > UTF-8 or Western European > ISO-8859-1 and tell us if that works.
Let's see, that looks like binary data - which is to say, it is not an encoding issue. It's either compressed data or an actual binary file ...
Do you use one of those "Internet privacy" programs? Opera Turbo is a proxy and doesn't work well with other proxies (which such privacy programs usually are). Most settings (blocking adds, de-animating GIFs, etc.) would be moot in Turbo, some particular settings may interfere with how Turbo works though and thus prevent Opera from uncompressing the data. Off the top of my head, one setting I've seen is "Block private headers" - since your program doesn't understand Turbo it may not know which headers are significant. If you have a setting like that, I'd disable it (for Opera anyway, if you have the option of specifying it for different programs). Otherwise, I guess I'd try turning it off completely and see if Opera then works properly.
Do you use one of those "Internet privacy" programs? Opera Turbo is a proxy and doesn't work well with other proxies (which such privacy programs usually are). Most settings (blocking adds, de-animating GIFs, etc.) would be moot in Turbo, some particular settings may interfere with how Turbo works though and thus prevent Opera from uncompressing the data. Off the top of my head, one setting I've seen is "Block private headers" - since your program doesn't understand Turbo it may not know which headers are significant. If you have a setting like that, I'd disable it (for Opera anyway, if you have the option of specifying it for different programs). Otherwise, I guess I'd try turning it off completely and see if Opera then works properly.
The same thing happens to me and a couple of friends while using Opera Unite to share photos, instead of seeing the full size picture a page of symbols like the ones jeanluc posted appear.
more information for squnhouse:
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the g-data option is a function verifying the content of web pages before downloading, thus blocking it if containing a known virus. I presume it can't understand Opera Turbo. but I love Opera because it's the fastest browser, but I wouldn't like to get some virus...