Font Awesome fonts show up as boxes on IE8

Question

So I am using Font Awesome in a project and in testing I\'m running into issues with IE8.

On Windows IE9, Chrome and Firefox show the font properly (As does Firefox,

Answer 1

It turns out that there was an extra tag being generated by an included file that was the source of my problems. So, in my final file I had both AND The extra tag was throwing IE into quirks mode which cause the font-awesome icon issue I was having.

Eliminating that rogue and verifying my headers were set correctly fixed everything for me.

I am now using a boilerplate set of header tags on all pages:

Before I had this on one page: