Want to take your pages to visit a bug farm in IE and Edge?
Put a bunch of stuff above your document's character set declaration:
Put a bunch of stuff above your document's character set declaration:
Alternatively, want to avoid a visit to the bug farm? Put a charset=utf-8 attribute on your Content-Type response header, and put <meta charset=utf-8> as the FIRST line of your <HEAD>.
(When IE/Edge encounter the character set declaration, they must restart the parser from the beginning, interpreting with the declared character set. Beyond hurting perf, this restart process tends to expose bugs.)
(And yes, I'm tweeting about my own 7 year-old blog posts. #fml) blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ieinternals/20…)
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