extremely frustrated trying to figure out how to make these characters render properly in ie8. i have boiled down the problem to this basic example.
http://pastebin.me/23b1df3d36616404a35773883b626b4a
has a doctype - characters do not render
http://pastebin.me/4a8a121b876f143ed7e99cc8b18e8b10
has no doctype - characters render
obviously, this is a problem and i want the doctype in as well as the characters rendering properly. someone please help!
p.s. feel free to experiment… you can “edit code” using the button in the top right of that website
I don’t have a copy of M$ IE8 on this machine but in M$ IE6 it [CJK] seems render fine when saved as UTF-8 with no BOM for both files. Also I saw no difference with Fx.
Perhaps you didn’t save the files as UTF-8 and just used the: <meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” /> for the browser to guess the encoding.
I am assuming you have the correct Language packs installed and the original files are off-line and not being sent with Server HTTP headers?
if both page work in ie6 and ffx, i don’t think saving issue where i am accidentally saving one page wrong. those pages weren’t creating by any “saving” on my end anyway… they were identical copy pastes into a pastebin… only the second one i removed the doctype after paste.
to my limited understanding, language packs shouldn’t enter into this either. using the same browser and the same code (less the doctype) both pages render the characters differently.
Quirks Mode(s) is about the only other suggestion. There is one aspect of using DOCTYPEs that is critically important for character encoding declarations. In Internet Explorer nothing must precede the DOCTYPE declaration in a file. If any character appears before it, the document will be served in quirks mode.
Albeit I could see “no difference”. Thus it’s either that ‘browser version’ or your configuration. I cannot really see how quirks modes would effect it to such a degree regarding rendering of fonts.
Although CJK rendering can have strange rules associated with it. In [URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK”]CJK environments where there are several different multi-byte encodings in use, auto-detection is also often employed.
okay but forgive me because i don’t follow your bottom line point.
for the record i’ve tested in a couple different ie8’s to the same result. not sure if any were windows 7. either way since my testers don’t use IE, i’m reasonably certain their settings are default.
ultimately i just want to know what i can do here to get the characters to render with the doctype in ie8. that’s the goal.
No problem, like I said it was most likely that browser version or configuration. Unless anyone else can recreate that rendering issue that’s what it is leaning towards.