Cant access admin panel on new installation

[mark_huyton]

I have just installed Magento 2.3, hosting on local server us XAMPP, i get the following message when i try to log on to admin.
Fatal error: Namespace declaration statement has to be the very first statement or after any declare call in the script in C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\vendor\magento\framework\View\Element\Template\File\Validator.php on line 2
My code in the file reads <?php namespace
I have no white space before <?php which is the only fix i can find?

[Vimal Kumar]

Hey @mark_huyton,

Try once namespace in next line:

for example: 

<?php 
namespace/module 

[mark_huyton]

Hi

Thanks for the advice, this still showed an error, so i Changed the Validator.php file from UTF-8 to ANSI and it seems to be working,

thanks