Mac IE and XMLC

Got a interesting problem using Mac IE and XMLC

Apparently,

<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
             http-equiv="Content-Type">

is different from:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
            content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

IE is making assumption on the order of attributes!!! However, XMLC 
renders the attributes according to the sorted order of attribute 
names. This breaks the pages that's not in default encoding of the 
browser.

Any suggestion about fixing this?

David