Enormous amount of Error with UTF-16 based Document

HTML Validator is not support UTF-16 encording, is it?
Below are the results of validation of XHTML 1.0 (encording:UTF-16)
document.
XML Header was deleted for this test.

Character encoding: unknown
Document type: HTML 4.0 Transitional

Line 1, column 1:
  ..<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD ...
   ^
Error: Missing DOCTYPE declaration at start of document (explanation...)

Line 1, column 0:
  ..<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD ...
  ^
Error: character data is not allowed here

Line 1, column 3:
  ..<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD ...
     ^
Error: non SGML character number 0

Line 1, column 5:
  ..<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD ...
       ^
Error: non SGML character number 0

Received on Monday, 6 March 2000 12:29:27 UTC