does the validator validate .svgz files?

does the validator validate .svgz files?


there are a number of plain svg and compressed svgz files in this  
directory:

http://www.peepo.org.uk/icon-ark/

in each case the svg files validate, but the .svgz file does not, but  
produces an error such as:

Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 26 it  
contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other  
words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character  
Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character  
encoding indication.

The error was: utf8 "\xFE" does not map to Unicode

regards


Jonathan Chetwynd

j.chetwynd@btinternet.com
http://www.iconomy.org/

+44 (0) 20 7978 1764


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