Google Web Fonts crashes Internet Explorer 8

When using Google Web Fonts with fonts like the famous Pacifico, in IE 8 if the site contains any character with acute (i.e. á, é, í, ó, ú) it will crash the whole browser. I wonder how many users of my site I've lost because of this.

Demo:

- Open IE8

- Go to http://www.google.com/webfonts

- Search Pacifico

- In Preview Text type any acute character.