<![CDATA[What happened to Armenian letters?]]>The Armenian letters became squares in Opera 25.0.1614.31.

On the tab bar, address bar, status bar, tooltips they are displayed correctly.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/5437/what-happened-to-armenian-lettersRSS for NodeSun, 15 Mar 2026 03:23:50 GMTWed, 01 Oct 2014 20:43:51 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:35:16 GMT]]>

The same problem is by me, opera shows squares instead of Armenian letters, the fonts in other languages have been also changed. This happened after opera's self-update to 25, I have changed encoding and fonts but nothing helped, any ideas else?

Open opera://flags/#disable-direct-write (paste this link to address bar) and in the "Disable DirectWrite" section press Enable button.

Mersi!! Rammstein für immer 🙂 finally Opera shows Armenian letters!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/55804https://forums.opera.com/post/55804Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:35:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:03:27 GMT]]>All of my friends and acquaintances who use Opera, after auto-updating to the 25 version the Armenian letters turned to squares. It's horrible! Тhe worst thing is that the Opera developers have not paid attention to this topic.
Some people I've helped to solve the problem. But most Opera users in Armenia won't find the solution and will replace Opera with other browser.

I've also submitted a bug report 6 days ago.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/55445https://forums.opera.com/post/55445Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:03:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:44:29 GMT]]>

The same problem is by me, opera shows squares instead of Armenian letters, the fonts in other languages have been also changed. This happened after opera's self-update to 25, I have changed encoding and fonts but nothing helped, any ideas else?

Open opera://flags/#disable-direct-write (paste this link to address bar) and in the "Disable DirectWrite" section press Enable button.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/55440https://forums.opera.com/post/55440Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:44:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:31:56 GMT]]>Thanks for the answer, I have downloaded and installed it before, along with the existed opera 25, then it crashed so it's now impossible to install it. I guess I'll have to wait for 26 now

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/55404https://forums.opera.com/post/55404Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:31:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:19:32 GMT]]>Download a 24 and rename the autoupdate file.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/55343https://forums.opera.com/post/55343Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:19:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:14:43 GMT]]>And how can I restore Opera to the version of 24?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/55342https://forums.opera.com/post/55342Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:14:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:13:37 GMT]]>The same problem is by me, opera shows squares instead of Armenian letters, the fonts in other languages have been also changed. This happened after opera's self-update to 25, I have changed encoding and fonts but nothing helped, any ideas else?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/55340https://forums.opera.com/post/55340Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:13:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Sun, 05 Oct 2014 09:23:55 GMT]]>They ought to supply such users with sorta manuals - what's being tested and what each kind of shit is for then.:right:

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/53154https://forums.opera.com/post/53154Sun, 05 Oct 2014 09:23:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Sun, 05 Oct 2014 08:37:31 GMT]]>

It helped!

Good to know.

I do not understand why it is activated by default, if it is an experimental feature?

When the experiment reachs a certain stage and is considered stable ehough, it's enabled by default so there is more people testing it.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/53148https://forums.opera.com/post/53148Sun, 05 Oct 2014 08:37:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Sun, 05 Oct 2014 06:52:21 GMT]]>

Have you tried disabling direct write on opera:flags?

It helped! Thanks.

I do not understand why it is activated by default, if it is an experimental feature?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/53139https://forums.opera.com/post/53139Sun, 05 Oct 2014 06:52:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Sat, 04 Oct 2014 21:42:20 GMT]]>Have you tried disabling direct write on opera:flags?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/53111https://forums.opera.com/post/53111Sat, 04 Oct 2014 21:42:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Sat, 04 Oct 2014 13:13:57 GMT]]>

Where did you get your nuOpera and was your 25 install a regular update?
What do other browsers show in your Windows 7?

I've downloaded the latest beta version from opera.com. Previous build has the same problem.

All other browsers (Opera 24, Opera 12, Firefox, IE11, Chrome) showing all Armenian letters normally. Only Opera beta 25 and Opera developer 26 displaying squares.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/53095https://forums.opera.com/post/53095Sat, 04 Oct 2014 13:13:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:09:48 GMT]]>Where did you get your nuOpera and was your 25 install a regular update?
What do other browsers show in your Windows 7?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/53081https://forums.opera.com/post/53081Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:09:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Sat, 04 Oct 2014 09:13:23 GMT]]>Here are some other screenshots (click for full size).

On the first screenshot there are squares after text "Armenian", but I would like to notice that some other languages in this list also displaying squares instead of native letters (Full list: Amharic, Armenian, Bengali, Georgian, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya.)

I've checked some of those links and they seemed ok here.in the sense of not being displaying squares.
My fonts are Time News Roman for Standard and Serif; Arial for Sans-serif and Consolas for Fixed-width. Default enconding is Western European (Iso 8859-1).

I have the same font and encoding configuration.
What is your operating system?
I'm using Windows 7.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/53075https://forums.opera.com/post/53075Sat, 04 Oct 2014 09:13:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Fri, 03 Oct 2014 22:13:44 GMT]]>Well, I see two relevant elements in the <head>:

<meta charset="UTF-8" />
and

<style>a:lang(ar),a:lang(kk-arab),a:lang(mzn),a:lang(ps),a:lang(ur){text-decoration:none} /* cache key: hywiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-css:7:72e50a08e3f3a95d49ffc899024cfb2d */</style>.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/53057https://forums.opera.com/post/53057Fri, 03 Oct 2014 22:13:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Fri, 03 Oct 2014 20:44:36 GMT]]>

Here is the link http://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Օպերա_(դիտարկիչ)
It happens on most pages.
Here are some pages where problem exists: www.akumb.am www.yerevan.am/am/ www.1in.am www.edu.am www.itel.am/am/ facebook.com (with Armenian language) etc.

I've checked some of those links and they seemed ok here.in the sense of not being displaying squares.

My fonts are Time News Roman for Standard and Serif; Arial for Sans-serif and Consolas for Fixed-width. Default enconding is Western European (Iso 8859-1).

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/53052https://forums.opera.com/post/53052Fri, 03 Oct 2014 20:44:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:29:54 GMT]]>

Let me amend your link (using HTML):
Is this it?

Yes.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/53049https://forums.opera.com/post/53049Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:29:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:38:24 GMT]]>Let me amend your link (using HTML):
Is this it?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/53011https://forums.opera.com/post/53011Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:38:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Fri, 03 Oct 2014 13:57:59 GMT]]>

Could you paste the link to the page here? I've tried http://hy.wikipedia.org/ here and it seems ok.
Btw, it happens all the times? On all pages?

Here is the link http://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Օպերա_(դիտարկիչ)
It happens on most pages.
Here are some pages where problem exists: www.akumb.am www.yerevan.am/am/ www.1in.am www.edu.am www.itel.am/am/ facebook.com (with Armenian language) etc.
These pages showing correctly: news.am/arm/ www.lia.am/hy.htm

I've installed Opera 25 on another computer (I'm installing it with Stand-alone option, but I do not think that this matter) and here is the same problem.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/53007https://forums.opera.com/post/53007Fri, 03 Oct 2014 13:57:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Fri, 03 Oct 2014 13:13:47 GMT]]>Could you paste the link to the page here? I've tried http://hy.wikipedia.org/ here and it seems ok.

Btw, it happens all the times? On all pages?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/52998https://forums.opera.com/post/52998Fri, 03 Oct 2014 13:13:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Fri, 03 Oct 2014 07:28:55 GMT]]>

Changing encoding (OMenu > Page > Encoding) makes any difference?

No. The Encoding is Unicode UTF-8 as it need to be. I've tried to change, but it does not help.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/52985https://forums.opera.com/post/52985Fri, 03 Oct 2014 07:28:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:55:40 GMT]]>Changing encoding (OMenu > Page > Encoding) makes any difference?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/52967https://forums.opera.com/post/52967Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:55:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:27:51 GMT]]>

Is there the "Web-pages" section in your settings?
Try changing the fonts. I'm using DejaVu and Arial.

I have the same font configuration in Opera 25 as in 24. In 24 everything is normal with Armenian letters.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/52965https://forums.opera.com/post/52965Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:27:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happened to Armenian letters? on Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:35:09 GMT]]>Is there the "Web-pages" section in your settings?
Try changing the fonts. I'm using DejaVu and Arial.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/52897https://forums.opera.com/post/52897Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:35:09 GMT