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How to avoid ie8 compatibility button?

Asked 2009-03-12T01:15:21.597
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In IE8, the Microsoft introduced a new mode called compatibility mode which would render the page like IE7.

You can see this button next to address bar in stackoverflow.com. But when you access google.com / live.com, you would not see the compatibility mode button. How do we make sure the pages don't show this button the user?

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I was having an issue with compatibility view, and it turned out some of my PHP files were being saved in UTF-8 character encoding, which I guess was confusing IE. The majority of the site files were saved in Codepage 1252.

Now, I set all the files to save as "Western European (Windows) - Codepage 1252" and my display issues went away.

The lesson here is, don't mix your character encodings.

answered 2013-02-10T19:01:28.843

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