title: HTML web page doctype declaration issue
body: <p>i am designing a webpage which should support the all languages <code>utf-8</code>. unfortunately some language characters are not recognising on IE but it loks fine on mozilla &amp; chrome, why ?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;  &lt;head&gt;
    &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt;
    &lt;p&gt;Chinese Text : &amp;#24744;&amp;#22909;&amp;#19990;&amp;#30028; &lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;p&gt; Indian text : &amp;#2361;&amp;#2375;&amp;#2354;&amp;#2379; &amp;#2357;&amp;#2367;&amp;#2358;&amp;#2381;&amp;#2357; &lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but when i remove the very first line, characters shows on <code>internet explorer (IE)</code> too. </p>
  
  <pre><code>Removed : &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can someone explain please, what should be correct doctype declaration for multilingual support. </p>