encoding="iso-8859-1" & http://validator.w3.org

If you look with a little care, there is an example URI included:  
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/images/shapes/rect01.svg

here is an example of the validation error message:
"I was not able to extract a character encoding labeling from any of  
the valid sources for such information. Without encoding information it  
is impossible to validate the document...."
http://validator.w3.org/ 
check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2FSVG11%2Fimages%2Fshapes%2Frect0 
1.svg

This problem is general to all the images I have checked.

please can you respond to the original query posted below?

thanks

Jonathan Chetwynd



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
> Date: Sun Jul 6, 2003  9:46:52  pm Europe/London
> To: www-svg@w3.org
> Subject: encoding="iso-8859-1" & http://validator.w3.org
>
> encoding="iso-8859-1" & http://validator.w3.org
>
> Is there a great reason why the SVG images* in the spec:  
> http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/ don't validate?
> Is there a plan to validate SVG images at some time in the future?
> This seems a rather poor practice, web accessibility and SVG have such  
> great potential!
>
> thanks
>
> Jonathan Chetwynd
> http://www.peepo.com/svg/!home.svg
>
> *http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/images/shapes/rect01.svg
>