Affinity programs can't open .svg file?

[Mandu]

Hello, I'm having a problem with .svg file exported from Blender 4.3 (freestyle exported as .svg). The message says: The file type is not supported. But Adobe Illustrator can open it just fine. I'm including the file in attachment if anyone wants to check it.

0005.svg

[lacerto]

The file is in UTF-8 encoding but wrongly marked as being ascii (all other apps that I tried ignore this erroneous marking and successfully open the file). So change the first line of the file to read: 

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

 

[David in Яuislip]

If you have many files to process and you're using Windows here's a Powershell script which will help
Place the script in a folder with the svg's, run the script and corrected files will be written to a sub-folder named utf8, the originals are unchanged
Once you're happy that it works you can delete the pause statement from the script

ToUTF8.ps1

[Mandu]

4 hours ago, lacerto said:

The file is in UTF-8 encoding but wrongly marked as being ascii (all other apps that I tried ignore this erroneous marking and successfully open the file). So change the first line of the file to read: 

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

 

Thank you for the reply. That worked for sure. It's quite an interesting problem.

[Mandu]

2 hours ago, David in Яuislip said:

If you have many files to process and you're using Windows here's a Powershell script which will help
Place the script in a folder with the svg's, run the script and corrected files will be written to a sub-folder named utf8, the originals are unchanged
Once you're happy that it works you can delete the pause statement from the script

ToUTF8.ps1 837 B · 1 download

Thank you for the effort to explain, it is appreciated.