diff --git a/spec/file_caching_test.js b/spec/file_caching_test.js
index ce832a189ad43623092bf0ed5c18a94016c6d689..fd1dfd5ad50b2c247a11aa1f10f39f2d1723c03b 100644
--- a/spec/file_caching_test.js
+++ b/spec/file_caching_test.js
@@ -399,4 +399,21 @@ describe('File caching service', function () {
     // check for files in redis
     expect(await redis.client.getBuffer('ui-middleware:554855300:/file.mp3:body')).to.deep.equal(response.body)
   })
+
+  it('does server svg as gzip (also escapes chars in regex)', async function () {
+    mockFetch({
+      'http://ui-server': {
+        '/manifest.json': generateSimpleViteManifest({}),
+        '/file.svg': () => new Response([...new Array(2500)].join(' '), { headers: { 'content-type': 'image/svg+xml' } })
+      }
+    })
+    app = await mockApp()
+
+    const response = await request(app.server).get('/file.svg')
+    expect(response.statusCode).to.equal(200)
+    expect(response.headers['content-encoding']).to.equal('gzip')
+
+    // check for files in redis
+    expect(zlib.gunzipSync(await redis.client.getBuffer('ui-middleware:554855300:/file.svg:body'))).to.deep.equal(response.body)
+  })
 })
diff --git a/src/files.js b/src/files.js
index 107ea8ef11d3034f377eef6825a538d3f7a39409..510dc0984616ba5880eaa44d021b97d33b4cd4cb 100644
--- a/src/files.js
+++ b/src/files.js
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { promisify } from 'node:util'
 const gzip = promisify(zlib.gzip)
 
 const compressFileSize = Number(process.env.COMPRESS_FILE_SIZE)
-const compressionMimeTypes = (process.env.COMPRESS_FILE_TYPES || '').split(' ')
+const compressionMimeTypes = (process.env.COMPRESS_FILE_TYPES || '').replace(/([.+*?^$()[\]{}|])/g, '\\$1').split(' ')
 const compressionWhitelistRegex = new RegExp(`^(${compressionMimeTypes.join('|')})$`)
 
 export function createWritable (body) {