Special characters throw exception

[Im-Sue]

exception content :

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/dat/svgStack/svg_stack.py", line 713, in <module> main() File "/dat/svgStack/svg_stack.py", line 706, in main layout.addSVG(fname,alignment=AlignCenter) File "/dat/svgStack/svg_stack.py", line 632, in addSVG svg_file = SVGFile(svg_file) File "/dat/svgStack/svg_stack.py", line 177, in __init__ self._root = etree.parse(fname).getroot() File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 3197, in lxml.etree.parse (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64816) File "parser.pxi", line 1571, in lxml.etree._parseDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:92729) File "parser.pxi", line 1600, in lxml.etree._parseDocumentFromURL (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:93013) File "parser.pxi", line 1500, in lxml.etree._parseDocFromFile (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:92076) File "parser.pxi", line 1047, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDocFromFile (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:88976) File "parser.pxi", line 577, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:84385) File "parser.pxi", line 676, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:85488) File "parser.pxi", line 616, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:84811) lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: PCDATA invalid Char value 3, line 565, column 70

exception Svg fragment：
<text alignment-baseline="auto" font-size="14" style="" x="843.5224609375" y="13.02" >�</text>

[astraw]

Thanks for the report. This looks like an error from lxml which will be difficult for us to fix. Nevertheless, can you upload a complete svg file that elicits the problem?