Kyungjoon Lee wrote:
On 7/31/06, Brendan Quigley <brendan@...1966...> wrote:
  
I've had a look at your files and the first thing I came across was the
'copyright' character on line 1646 of your SVG file, which isn't allowed
in the UTF-8 encoding.  It wouldn't pass through the validator at
http://jiggles.w3.org/svgvalidator/ until I removed it.  When it did
pass through it failed, but all Inkscape SVGs seem to fail that! I know
that has no bearing on your problem though - sorry! :)
    

I don't understand how any Unicode codepoint could be illegal in
UTF-8, as long as it's encoded properly (as UTF-8, not ISO 8859-1).

Anyway, a workaround would be to use &#169; in the source instead.

Cheers,
Kyungjoon Lee
  
My apologies, you are correct.  The symbol was encoded correctly (U+00A9) and therefore not illegal as UTF-8.  The validator didn't like it though and deemed the value beginning with 0xA9 illegal.  Not sure if this is because it's a strict XML parser which requires entities to be defined before use.  But I've had a look around and it appears SVG allows multi-lingual characters (according to Adobe).  I will have to read the specs a bit more closely.  :)

Cheers,
Brendan