- From: Richard William Kaye <kayerw@for.mat.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:28:00 -0000 (GMT)
- To: www-math@w3.org
Dear all, I have just been tearing hair out trying to trace a problem with a web page that doesn't display property in IE+MathPlayer but is fine in Firefox: turns out that my file was UTF-8 encoded and did NOT have the Byte Order Mark (EF BB BF) at the beginning. It did have a proper XML declaration including a correct definition of the encoding. When I added a BOM my display problems all went away. Anyone know why? Anyway, in case others have the same problem, I thought you might like to know that despite the fact the BOM is NOT manditory for UTF-8, IE DOES require it. By the way, there's another entertaining embarrassment for someone: It seems that IE7 (with or without MathPlayer) fails completely to display http://www.w3.org/ At least that's what I discovered tonight. (I had to switch to Firefox to confirm from the specs that the BOM is not required for UTF-8 :) I cannot explain this one either. Good night! Richard
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