Fatal Error: Empty document, with no root element

Hello,

I am taking an HTML class, but believe I know enough to say there is something wrong with the validator. Attached is the most basic html file I could imagine. There is the skeleton with charset defined and hello in the body (i’ll copy it below in case opening attachments isn’t allowed). Still this error persists!

"Fatal Error: Empty document, with no root element”  

Am I missing something or is it the validator?

Thanks, Garrett Sutherland


<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
<head>
    <title>Page Title</title>
    <meta charset="UTF 8" />
</head>
<body>
hello
</body>
</html>

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Received on Friday, 18 September 2015 12:18:47 UTC