Opera Progress Bar: Weird Language

[t_anjan]

I've got Edgy AMD64. I installed Opera 9.10 using Simple64. Everything went well, without a single problem.

Opera works properly, except that the progress bar displays the speed and size in some weird East Asian language.

I've attached a screenshot. Is this a problem with Opera, or was there a mistake in the installation? Is this post supposed to be in the Opera forums?

[kuja]

Weird indeed, I've never seen anything like it before. Try going to tools -> preferences -> advanced -> fonts and making sure that there aren't any "weird ones" listed.

[t_anjan]

Weird indeed, I've never seen anything like it before. Try going to tools -> preferences -> advanced -> fonts and making sure that there aren't any "weird ones" listed.

The font can only be changed for the entire toolbar, not just "Speed" and "Total Loaded". But, as you can see from the attached screenshot, the font for the other parts of the toolbar is OK.

[smdeep]

Hi
I have the same issue and it started with Opera 9.10. I am running Ubuntu 6.10 (64bit) with kde-core installed.

[t_anjan]

Hi
I have the same issue and it started with Opera 9.10. I am running Ubuntu 6.10 (64bit) with kde-core installed.

Well, I don't use KDE. But, it doesn't seem to make a difference.

How did u install Opera? Using Simple64? Have u used an earlier version of Opera on Ubuntu x64? 9.10 is the first version I installed here.

If u also installed using Simple64, then it could be a problem with it.

[smdeep]

Hi

I think as far as I can remember I downloaded the .deb from opera.com.

Sudeep

[t_anjan]

Opera doesn't provide 64 bit versions. So you could not have got it from Opera.com

[ispmarin]

Yes you can, but you have to install de .deb with --force-architecture. Same problem here... and locales (accents and stuff) not working here either.

[t_anjan]

There are numerous threads on the Opera forum about this problem (both on Windows and Linux). The problem occurs due to the wrong locale being set on the OS. I saw one solution aimed at ArchLinux, but it didn't work for me. The solution involved reloading ur locales file. U can do a search on the Opera forum and u will get it. Maybe u will have better luck.

[Rulzern]

Here (http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=162424) you go, I had the same problem, thanks to the helpful folks over at the Opera forums it was solved quickly. :)

[ispmarin]

Well, the post on the opera forums (murphyfactor) was mine... and now I see that will be a fix for this problem in the next release. I use the pt.BR-UTF-8 locale, so I will have to wait for the release...
Thanks anyway for the answer.

[Nameless_one]

The locale problem is a bitch, I am having it myself :( I was badly surprised yesterday when I discovered I couldn't post on my native language fora. I hope this will be resolved soon.

[ispmarin]

The opera guys promised that this will be fixed in the next release. Well, we will have to wait and see...

[Colonel Kilkenny]

I don't have this problem but weekly build from 12th January fixed something with locales.
From changelog:
"fixed invalid locale causing missing strings in the UI"

After that there has been two more weeklies already so I'd suggest downloading the newest if you're still having problems with 9.10.. But remember that these aren't official releases!

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam

[t_anjan]

For anyone who may not have solved this problem yet:

sudo gedit /etc/environment

Add this line at the bottom

LC_ALL="C"

My file looks like this:

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"
LANG="en_IN.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_IN:en"
LC_ALL="C"

Restart computer after saving the file.
Open Opera and the problem should have been fixed.

[ispmarin]

You can set in your account only this locale, not globally, putting the
LC_ALL="C"
in your .bashrc, and after it, just doing a
source .bashrc
This will reload your environ variables, and it should be fine. But I installed the 9.20 beta version, and all the problems went away...