The information in this article applies to:
SYMPTOMSHyperlinks that use fragment identifiers ("#fragment") on the URL to identify a specific location in the target resource will fail in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, 4.01 (4.0x) for UTF-8 pages, sometimes with the following error message:
CAUSEInternet Explorer 4.0x parses URLs with embedded "#" symbols incorrectly for the UTF-8 code page. RESOLUTION
The only available workaround at this time is to use an alternative
character set (charset).
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. MORE INFORMATIONThe following HTML demonstrates the problem:
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:
REFERENCESHTML 4.0 RFC 1866, subsection 7.4: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.1.1 © Microsoft Corporation 1999, All Rights Reserved. Additional query words: hash bookmark #
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