Reproduced with Inkscape 0.48+devel r9932 on OS X 10.5.8
Console messages: ** (inkscape:50826): WARNING **: SVGView: error loading document '/Volumes/blue/img/Inkscape/test/bug/684652-SpainSource/Spain_traffic_signal_r108-r9932-LeWitt.svg'
/Volumes/blue/img/Inkscape/test/bug/684652-SpainSource/Spain_traffic_signal_r108-r9932-LeWitt.svg:71: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xFF 0x27 0x20 0x69 <?xpacket begin='?' id='W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d'?><x:xmpmeta ^
Caused AFAIU by incorrect (undeclared) encoding of content in AI-proprietary tags in the SVG file.
Linking as duplicate to Bug #499257 “saves svg file, that it can't read afterwards” <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/499257>
Please add a comment here and revert the duplicate status if you don't agree and think these are different issues.
Reproduced with Inkscape 0.48+devel r9932 on OS X 10.5.8
Console messages: blue/img/ Inkscape/ test/bug/ 684652- SpainSource/ Spain_traffic_ signal_ r108-r9932- LeWitt. svg'
** (inkscape:50826): WARNING **: SVGView: error loading document '/Volumes/
/Volumes/ blue/img/ Inkscape/ test/bug/ 684652- SpainSource/ Spain_traffic_ signal_ r108-r9932- LeWitt. svg:71: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! zreSzNTczkc9d' ?><x:xmpmeta
Bytes: 0xFF 0x27 0x20 0x69
<?xpacket begin='?' id='W5M0MpCehiH
^
Caused AFAIU by incorrect (undeclared) encoding of content in AI-proprietary tags in the SVG file.
Linking as duplicate to /bugs.launchpad .net/inkscape/ +bug/499257>
Bug #499257 “saves svg file, that it can't read afterwards”
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Please add a comment here and revert the duplicate status if you don't agree and think these are different issues.