We have always told people to put information like <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> as early as possible in the <head> of an HTML document. Now I ran into a case where that actually mattered: IE just showed a blank page if a Japanese <title> appeared before the above info. This may be specific to some version of IE (I'm using 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.05031-1519), or some settings, or due to the fact that I did this locally, or it may be more general. The files I used are attached; testie3.html displays well, testie4.html shows a blank page. This is in no way a criticism of IE, I think IE is perfectly okay in not accepting this file. The main reason I'm writing this is to clearly document this case; a lot of advice we give is sometimes based on second-hand information. [if this is common knowledge, I appologize.] Btw, if you test this and other things, please be aware of the fact that IE tends to keep information about the encoding of a page; if you really want to make sure IE doesn't keep such information from an earlier test, the best thing is to give the file a new name by copying it. Regards, Martin.
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