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 is not only IE, all the browsers have the same issue.

The funny thing is you need to put your files in the right location.

This means you need the below structure:

folder levels look like this:

    level 1                 level 2  level 3

----index.html 

----font-awesome-4.2.0  ----css ---- fontawesome.css

                        ----css ---- fontawesome.min.css 

                        ----fonts----... 

                                 ----... 

                        ----...

and then put the link sylte in your index.html as

in between head

a very important note is: DO NOT try to COMBINE fontawesome folder and any other folder. Keep them separate.

now test it, and everything is good to go.