Set web config debug to false and broke project

Question

We have a website that we have almost finished turning into an application. Everything works fine except a little issue with BrowserLink in IE 8 and IE 7. So I found somewhere that told me to change debug to false. So I did.

<!--<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5">-->
  <compilation debug="false">

Unfortunately when I did that, this is what the login page looked like. enter image description here

If anyone has any ideas of what could be causing this that would be awesome. I know that this is EXTREMELY general, but I don't really know what is causing the problem...Everything works fine when debug="true". And please don't tell me WHY it should be set to false, I have already read enough articles talking about that.

Have you tried including the targetFramework when debug is set to false? — Sam Leach, Mar 28 '14 at 21:32
Yeah, I am thinking it might have something to do with compression. Because that looks like what is going on. But I am not sure why it would compress when it was out of debug mode. — DeadlyChambers, Mar 28 '14 at 22:08

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '14 at 21:51

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check the charset of the web.config open with any text editor u will see the which encode is there like:

ANSI
ISO
UTF-8

select the UTF-8 it may fix the issue

answered Mar 28 '14 at 21:51

Tarun

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The web.config is set to Utf – DeadlyChambers Mar 28 '14 at 22:10
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you may refer this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4143536/page-displays-random-symbols-instead-of-error-message-on-firefox , if already checked this then u need to re-look your codes or post them here. – Tarun Mar 28 '14 at 22:23
Yeah it was the GZIP encoding. We had the masterpage forcing GZIP when it was out of debug. – DeadlyChambers Mar 28 '14 at 23:47

Set web config debug to false and broke project

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