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

The only thing that worked for me was this:

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/2324

Combined with the other answer from Jason: e.g. Instead of:

use:

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