<![CDATA[Strange symbol keeps appearing.]]>Every couple of updates I now have to manually reinstall Opera because it causes certain text to appear as a symbol - which is like a d with a cross above it.
(seems to be only in the past year or so).
It does not affect all text, only certain text such as box on the map indicating the number of stops waiting for Amazon delivery and bits and bobs on a limited no of sites.
Typically, a sentence would appear like: dddddddddd
Clearly, something is breaking on certain updates when auto update occurs, because it's fixed with a manual dl of the latest installer.
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Does anyone have a fix/setting other than a manual reinstall when it occurs?
Cheers
Ivan

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/48467/strange-symbol-keeps-appearingRSS for NodeMon, 15 Jun 2026 03:28:55 GMTTue, 13 Apr 2021 22:19:09 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:04:39 GMT]]>@ivanfraser The eth symbol has appeared on the amazon tracker map again with today's Opera update that got installed earlier.
Seems like every other automatic update I have to manually install with the offline exe.
Just daft.
Anybody trying to address this at all?
I've had no feedback or advice. And it can't just be me and my 2 pcs, considering they're different. One's a MS Surface laptop and the other's an Acer PC.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/254691https://forums.opera.com/post/254691Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:04:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Thu, 06 May 2021 06:58:04 GMT]]>@sgunhouse Hi. Yes.
It would have said something like "8 stops away". It's Amazon's delivery tracker.
The eth symbols have also appeared on other websites that my wife uses but are so random and she says just normal paragraphs and text. So not necessarily in that kind of live script.
The last thing she saw it in was in a Wordpress blog.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/250905https://forums.opera.com/post/250905Thu, 06 May 2021 06:58:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Thu, 06 May 2021 03:38:13 GMT]]>@ivanfraser Hmm, the limit used to be 2 MB. I may need to ask the webmaster if they changed something.

Any idea what that text should have said?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/250900https://forums.opera.com/post/250900Thu, 06 May 2021 03:38:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 05 May 2021 20:05:56 GMT]]>@leocg I've finally got a wee pic of what I described above, see here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fdlBjqzf7ZTYwoGqar9BywGh1QUec9JV/view?usp=sharing

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/250869https://forums.opera.com/post/250869Wed, 05 May 2021 20:05:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 05 May 2021 18:22:28 GMT]]>@ivanfraser Maybe the forum is having issues. Upload it somewhere else and post the link here.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/250845https://forums.opera.com/post/250845Wed, 05 May 2021 18:22:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 05 May 2021 18:02:05 GMT]]>@leocg I tried a few times and waited a while and just got an error message as above in the post by ceedee. ![0_1620237439256_Picture1.png](Uploading 100%)
And just tried again, but still get the error.
(BTW, have reinstalled Opera manually since then.)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/250840https://forums.opera.com/post/250840Wed, 05 May 2021 18:02:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 05 May 2021 17:57:03 GMT]]>@sgunhouse It was 120k.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/250839https://forums.opera.com/post/250839Wed, 05 May 2021 17:57:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 05 May 2021 17:25:38 GMT]]>@leocg

Get this when upload is used. something wrong somewhere.

https://www.upload.ee/image/13117238/Opera_Snapshot_2021-05-05_182206_forums.opera.com.png

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/250833https://forums.opera.com/post/250833Wed, 05 May 2021 17:25:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 05 May 2021 16:40:58 GMT]]>@ivanfraser Did you wait for the image to show up in the preview?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/250816https://forums.opera.com/post/250816Wed, 05 May 2021 16:40:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 05 May 2021 16:39:37 GMT]]>@ivanfraser It will, but the board has a size limit. Don't try to capture the entire screen, or else use an image editor to cut it down.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/250815https://forums.opera.com/post/250815Wed, 05 May 2021 16:39:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 05 May 2021 12:29:41 GMT]]>@ivanfraser Looks like Opera won't upload images now :0)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/250767https://forums.opera.com/post/250767Wed, 05 May 2021 12:29:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 05 May 2021 12:27:22 GMT]]>@sgunhouse The latest update has caused the exact same issue. I'll post a snip of it with the eth appearing on the Amazon tracker:
![0_1620217566993_Picture1.png](Uploading 100%)
Opera version is 76.0.4017.94

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/250766https://forums.opera.com/post/250766Wed, 05 May 2021 12:27:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Thu, 22 Apr 2021 01:38:36 GMT]]>@ivanfraser Actually, I was thinking about memory issues; restarting the browser should release any memory it was using.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/249399https://forums.opera.com/post/249399Thu, 22 Apr 2021 01:38:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:08:12 GMT]]>@sgunhouse Opera was restarted many times without a change in the error.
And it appeared numerous times on the pc which we reboot each morning, so I'm fairly sure that wouldn't work. The first time it happened I ignored it assuming it would just right itself after reboot but it didn't.
An autoupdate in the background for the browser really shouldn't require a pc reboot.
Ivan

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/249349https://forums.opera.com/post/249349Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:08:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:46:21 GMT]]>@ivanfraser You sure simply restarting Opera wouldn't fix it? Or rebooting the computer?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/249348https://forums.opera.com/post/249348Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:46:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:23:16 GMT]]>@sgunhouse Thank you. Yes, that's the symbol, the eth. It's definitely a replaced font. It's clear that Opera and my pc supports whatever font is being replaced, as this only happens rarely, and is fixed easily by simply running the manual install of the latest version.
If it occurs again, I will report back with a screen shot and the url. Unfortunately, it's so random, and I fixed it with a manual reinstall of Opera before thinking to come to this forum to ask.
Thanks again for that useful info.
Ivan

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/249296https://forums.opera.com/post/249296Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:23:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 21 Apr 2021 03:04:32 GMT]]>@ivanfraser Sounds like some sort of a missing character symbol - that is to say, the font in use does not support the character that is to be displayed and so replaces it with some specific symbol. Though in most fonts, the missing character symbol is something like a box.

The symbol in question sounds like it could be an "eth", as seen and described here.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/249270https://forums.opera.com/post/249270Wed, 21 Apr 2021 03:04:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 21 Apr 2021 01:26:36 GMT]]>@ivanfraser screenshot it before reinstall else provide link to a site that does it. just copy url when it happens

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/249267https://forums.opera.com/post/249267Wed, 21 Apr 2021 01:26:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Fri, 16 Apr 2021 10:35:57 GMT]]>@leocg Windows versions have been the latest 10 versions that have been released for home pc over the last couple of years. Problem cannot be nailed down to a particular OS or version. But it has happened concurrently on both main pc and laptop.

I can't replicate the issue for screen shots or checking disabling extensions etc. because the problem is fixed by a new install.

I didn't do the reset or new install route because the issue is fixed by updating from the manual installation route. That fixes the issue. Going through a new fresh install would lose settings etc and take a lot longer. The Opera version is whatever it is now, but has been in several earlier versions going back over a year.

Cannot add any information that would help address the issue. It is purely a random event that occurs and the question is, has anyone experienced it? Is it common?

Obviously, the fix is to not use auto update but to always use the installer. But it would be better to rely on the autoupdate feature.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/248834https://forums.opera.com/post/248834Fri, 16 Apr 2021 10:35:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strange symbol keeps appearing. on Wed, 14 Apr 2021 01:01:10 GMT]]>@ivanfraser See https://forums.opera.com/topic/43601/instructions-on-posting-about-problems-in-opera-for-windows/1

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/248469https://forums.opera.com/post/248469Wed, 14 Apr 2021 01:01:10 GMT