Why is IE failing to show UTF-8 encoded text?

Question

I have a some Chinese characters that I\'m trying to display on a Kentico-powered website. This text is copy/pasted into Kenticos FCK editor, and is then saved and appears

Answer 1

I managed to fix the same issue by changing the file's UTF format to "UTF8 With Byte Order Mark".

(The editor I use allows me to switch file formats easily, not sure how to proceed otherwise, but worth taking a look at the different UTF file formats, IE(8) simply doesn't like UTF8 Without Byte Order Marks...)

I was also able to reproduce the snippet from the answer above;

    
    
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But my results were "intermittent" while in UTF-Without BOM (sometimes accents would show up, some other times the weird chars, and it didn't look like a whitespace rendering issue to me...) Note that I was fiddling with lang="fr" and lang="es", but in all cases, changing the UTF file format seems to have permanently resolved my accents display issues. :)

I'm not 100% familiar with UTF, but if the chars are coded using 2 bytes, one would have to assume that white-space issues and misunderstood chars could be related to misaligned bytes in the sources.