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    Encoding Errors Persist across Installs, Multiple Computers

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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      I have been having a problem with (I think) websites with encrypted connections displaying Chinese characters instead of the page I'm expecting. I cannot access my bank account website, pay for my utilities or health insurance, view certain sections of my paypal account, and (for some reason) view some ads on pages such as amazon. I have submitted several bug reports and waited for several updates and nothing has changed.

      Opera is (was?) my favorite browser until now. I have tried to access these sites on fresh installs (beta and release version), all extensions, no extensions, multiple computers, multiple different versions of windows and the only thing in common between these is that I was using some form of the opera browser. I really do not want to go back to chrome or firefox but all these sites work there.

      EXAMPLES

      AMAZON

      WELLS FARGO LOG ON

      go to www.epayitonline.com to look for yourself, a portal for logging in to submit payments

      ON CHROME

      ON OPERA

      As you can see there is a pretty vast difference. My first thought is that my encoding settings were wrong but that wouldn't explain the issue persisting on both of my home computers, my work computer, and my grandparents' computer. and it seems that we no longer have access to that option anyway, or at least not one I could locate. All of opera's help materials relating to encoding found through google are outdated.

      HELP??

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        Strange, that epayitonline link displays fine for me in Opera 36 (on Windows XP) and it works fine in Opera 12.18 too!
        🙂

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        • sgunhouse
          sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

          You don't say where you are, what version you have installed (as Dave points out), when this started ... that epayitonline image isn't even styled (no boxes or colors) and hence could be an error message or some such?

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            ah, sorry I should have included that in my original comment. I am currently in USA on the latest beta version 40.0.2308.11 on Windows 10 but can be replicate don my work computer running windows 7 and my grandparent's computer running 8.1. The problem began probably 3 or 4 updates ago, i'm not sure the exact time.

            I'm not sure what you mean by not styled, it is as it appears on my screen. I had cropped out the bookmarks bar for privacy but here is another screenshot As seen in this Wells Fargo image, sometimes it is an incredibly long page of foreign text and unicode characters. If it's an error message I can't discern what it could mean or why it only happens in Opera.

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            • lando242
              lando242 last edited by

              This is the forum for Opera Stable, currently version 39. Opera Beta has its own forum. They might have more on target answers for you there.

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              • leocg
                leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                [Moved to Beta and Developer]

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                • A Former User
                  A Former User last edited by

                  the problem exists on stable and beta clients

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                    go to www.epayitonline.com to look for yourself, a portal for logging in to submit payments

                    Loaded fine here.

                    Have you tried changing the fonts settings?

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                    • sgunhouse
                      sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                      If you go to Settings > Browser and under Languages click on Preferred Languages, what does it say?

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        changing font settings does not appear to have done anything.

                        English (United States)

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                        • leocg
                          leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                          What happens if you go to Menu > Page > Enconding and change the setting?

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