FIX: Fragment Identifiers Ignored for Links on UTF-8 pages

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The following HTML demonstrates the problem:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
  <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
  <TITLE>Repro of UTF-8 Fragment Failure Bug</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
  <A HREF="#subloc1">Jump down</A>
  <!-- ... bunch of BR's ... -->
  <A NAME=subloc1>Many lines down</A>
</BODY>
</HTML>
				

Activating the hyperlink in this document generates the symptoms described in this article--nothing happens or an error message box is shown. With the correct behavior, Internet Explorer should scroll the document down to the sub-location within the document.

In Internet Explorer 4.0x, a page can be specified as UTF-8 in multiple ways such as the following:

• With a META tag in the HTML document (as demonstrated above)
• Via HTTP Content-Type header added by CGI EXE or ISAPI DLL
• By specifying a default charset in the Internet Explorer Fonts Dialog

All methods result in the bug described in this article.