Why is IE8 not loading my eot files?

Question

I downloaded some otf fonts and then converted them to eot using: https://onlinefontconverter.com but when I view the site in IE8, the fonts do not show (they show in Chrome

Answer 1

I had a problem and no amount of tweaking and web research helped
Until I edited head tag to include meta

The meta tag solved problem and every variation worked!

Variation 1

Variation 2

We think complex but often needle in haystack is elsewhere head meta tags

You may try and view source
http://www.weloveseppa.com/jnc/jncTryBangla.html
http://www.weloveseppa.com/jnc/try1/jncTryBangla.html

Works in all the browsers including the old IE8